While working on coastal areas, everyone gets encountered with the the datum issues. You may have data with reference to one datum while you require to transform data to other datum. So, some of the handy tools for the tidal datum transformation are as follows:
IF you are interested in the theory behind the tide prediction then read this article. http://www.laseagrant.org/pdfs/NOAA_DataComputations.pdf
- VDATUM : Vdatum helps to convert the vertical and horizontal datum transformation. It can be downloaded from the NOAA from the link : http://vdatum.noaa.gov/download.html
- VERTCON: This is an online tool which helps to convert from NAVD 88 to NGVD 29 and viceversa. This can be downloaded from the link : VERTCON
IF you are interested in the theory behind the tide prediction then read this article. http://www.laseagrant.org/pdfs/NOAA_DataComputations.pdf