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Tides are important for geodetic engineering students to analyze surveying data collected at different tide levels. Tides affect surveying works by providing a reference for collecting data. Understanding the causes and importance of tides is significant for safe navigation, recreation, coastal development, and analyzing tide station data. Tidal datums are used similarly to other datums but only apply locally, while the mean sea level and mean lower low water levels are used differently - mean sea level is the average height over time and mean lower low water is the average of the lowest heights. The mean lower low water datum is used in the Philippines.

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Tides are important for geodetic engineering students to analyze surveying data collected at different tide levels. Tides affect surveying works by providing a reference for collecting data. Understanding the causes and importance of tides is significant for safe navigation, recreation, coastal development, and analyzing tide station data. Tidal datums are used similarly to other datums but only apply locally, while the mean sea level and mean lower low water levels are used differently - mean sea level is the average height over time and mean lower low water is the average of the lowest heights. The mean lower low water datum is used in the Philippines.

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GE113

LET’S INITIATE!
Activity 1.
1. Is tide important to you? Support your answer.
- Yes, because tide will help me as a Geodetic Engineering student to be able to read a
different data when it is low tide and high tide.
2. How does tide affect surveying works?
- It affects it rather good. Because tide is a way to read data.
3. How important is tide for Geodetic Engineering students?
- For me as a Geodetic Engineering student it is very important, tide is a good thing for
us. We can analyze the data and in different ways.
4. What is the significance of knowing the importance and cause of tides in surveying
works?
- It is rather having a very big significance that knowing what’s the importance and
cause of tides are in surveying works. We study tides for safe navigation, recreation,
and coastal development. Tide stations are constructed to measure tides and
analyze data.
5. After going through Lesson 2 of this course, give a brief and precise discussion of the
cause and importance of tides.

LET’S INQUIRE!
Activity 1.
1. What is/are the similarity/ies of the tidal datum to other datums?
- Tidal datums are used as references to measure local water levels and should not be
extended into areas having differing oceanographic characteristics without
substantiating measurements. In order that they may be recovered when needed,
such datums are referenced to fixed points known as benchmarks. Tidal datums are
also the basis for establishing privately owned land, state owned land, territorial sea,
exclusive economic zone, and high seas boundaries.
2. What is/are the difference/s of the tidal datum to other datums?
- A tidal datum is only applicable to the area immediately surrounding the same tide
station. Tidal datums are referenced to local water levels and should not be applied
to coastal areas of differing oceanographic characteristics. Likewise, the elevation
relationship between a tidal and geodetic datum is valid only at the location of the
datum measurements.
3. What is the purpose of the mean sea level in hydrographic surveying?
- The arithmetic mean of hourly heights observed over the National Tidal Datum
Epoch. Shorter series are specified in the name, e.g. monthly mean sea level and
yearly mean sea level.
4. What is the difference between mean sea level and mean lower low water?
- The arithmetic mean of hourly heights observed over the National Tidal Datum
Epoch. Shorter series are specified in the name, e.g. monthly mean sea level and
yearly mean sea level. The average of all the low water heights observed over the
National Tidal Datum Epoch. For stations with shorter series, comparison of
simultaneous observations with a control tide station is made in order to derive the
equivalent datum of the National Tidal Datum Epoch.
5. Why is mean lower low water the datum adapted in the Philippines?

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