A New Approach to Geodata Storage and Processing Based on Neural Model of the Bathymetric Surface

Presently, bathymetric data in the navigational electronic charts are presented in the simplified form as points, lines and polygons. Such presentation of the data causes that the navigational chart contains blank spaces where is lack of bathymetric information. This work presents a new approach to the processing and storing of bathymetric data. It is based on the use of artificial neural networks, which allow for computation of bathymetric data in the entire domain of modelled bathymetric surface.