The shallow Baltic Sea is a vital waterway with dense shipping traffic, requiring accurate and reliable nautical charts for safe navigation. Until recently, different realisations of the mean sea level were used in the paper charts of each country, sometimes even between harbours. This created obstacles for the digitalisation of ship navigation, including electronic nautical charts combined with satellite-based positioning. To...

Although Northern Europe has been the target area in many regionwide geoid determination studies, the research has been land-focused, neglecting bathymetry information. With new projects, such as the Baltic Sea Chart Datum 2000, the attention is shifting toward the marine geoid. Hence, consideration for bathymetry has become relevant, the influence of which is studied. In the relatively shallow Baltic Sea, accounting for bathy...