| Singlebeam |
| Multibeam |
| Seismic |
| Isolated sounding |
| ENC sounding |
| Lidar |
| Depth measured by optical light sensor |
| Combination of direct measurement methods |
| Predicted based on satellite-derived gravity data |
| Interpolated (computer algorithm/GMT) |
| Digitized contour |
| Bathymetric sounding within gridded dataset |
| Pre-generated grid |
| Unknown source |
| Steering points |