
Alumni Profile
TCarta Marine: Mapping the ocean safely. Using satellites to hydrographically survey the ocean.
Mapping the ocean safely. Using satellites to hydrographically survey the ocean.
Understanding our world, and specifically, oceans that cover nearly 70 percent of our planet, is fundamental to our understanding of the effects of climate change. Monitoring the health of our marine environments, which are sirens to alert us to the deleterious impact of a changing climate, is the key to expanding and enhancing that understanding so we can start to reverse the continuing cycle of decline in ocean health.
Using space-based sensors, TCarta Marine creates a 3D elevation model of coastal and inland water depths. Using the Company’s innovative technology to deploy satellites to hydrographically survey the ocean reduces the risks and limitations of marine and aerial-based hydrographic survey methods and practices.
Larta has worked to help the Company with their commercialization efforts, in particular helping with regulatory strategy and patentability, since they received an NSF award in 2018 and we continue our joint efforts with their most recent award from NOAA.
Contributing to global ocean-focused initiatives, including Seabed 2030 and the United Nations’ program Decade of Ocean Health, TCarta Marine is highly engaged in the ongoing global collaboration to map the entire ocean floor by 2030.
UN Sustainable Development Goals


Larta Programs
- NOAA CAP
Larta Products
- Commercialization Plan
- Regulatory Research & Strategy
- Patentability Landscape
Founders

Kyle Goodrich
President and founder
TCarta Marine

Corey Goodrich
Managing Director
TCarta Marine
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Our work with Larta has been instrumental in devising alternative business models and product offerings to meet multiple market needs and adjust to changing industry trends for the technology TCarta Marine has developed under the NOAA SBIR grant program.

Kyle Goodrich
President and founder
Alumni News

January 15, 2020
TCarta developing commercial ICESat-2 bathymetric product with National Science Foundation grant
TCarta Marine, a global provider of marine geospatial products, is commercializing a new technique to derive highly accurate shallow-water bathymetry measurements from NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite data.

March 11, 2019
TCarta Marine to Map Kiribati Seafloor
TCarta Marine has been contracted by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) to provide a baseline dataset of water depths and seafloor classification around the Republic of Kiribati.

February 27, 2019
TCarta Wins Contract to Map Seafloor around Remote Pacific Island Nation
TCarta Marine, a global provider of geospatial products and services, has been contracted by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) to provide a baseline dataset of water depths and seafloor classification around the Republic of Kiribati.

September 27, 2021
TCarta to Introduce Smallwood as Sales Director, Unveil Trident Satellite-Derived Bathymetry Tools at GEOINT 2021
TCarta Marine, a global provider of hydrospatial products, will introduce geospatial industry veteran Michael Smallwood as Director of Sales at the GEOINT 2021 Symposium. In addition, TCarta will demonstrate the new Trident Satellite Derived Bathymetry (SDB) Toolbox, now available as a software-as-a-service product.

October 15, 2021
The Prospect of Global Coral Reef Bathymetry by Combining Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite-2 Altimetry With Multispectral Satellite Imagery
Empirical methods for estimating shallow-water bathymetry using passive multispectral satellite imagery are robust and globally applicable, in theory, but they require copious local measurements of water depth for algorithm calibration.