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Suez Canal Contract
01 Oct 2002
Atlas Hydrographic, based in Cairns, Australia and Bremen, Germany, has been awarded a contract worth more than €500,000 by the Suez Canal Authority in Ismailia for supply of multibeam echosounding facilities and associated equipment. According to the company, the equipment will be primarily used aboard a survey launch for pre and post-dredging hydrographic operations along sectors of the 193km-long Canal.
Survey equipment being provided comprises a 200 kHz Fansweep 20 shallow water multibeam system together with an Atlas Dynabase 2-05 motion sensor, an SVP 20 sound velocity probe and an Anschutz 20 gyro compass. Support software includes PC-based Atlas Hydromap NT on and offline processing facilities for navigation planning, acquisition, management and editing of data in addition to a series of contouring modules designed by Eiva a/s of Denmark.
Also being supplied in support of survey launch and associated land-based GIS operations is a Thales Navigation Ashtech Z-Xtreme RTK (real-time kinematic) DGPS system for positioning to centimetric accuracies.
The dual-frequency system will include both mobile onboard and land receivers;
they feature an easy-to-operate interface on the front panel for key functions such as site information entry, checking survey status, and set-up of RTK base stations without the additional cost of a handheld controller.
Completion of the contract is scheduled for the end of this year. Atlas Hydrographic has also been retained to provide intensive training of Suez Canal survey personnel following installation and setting-to-work of equipment.
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