Hydrographic Survey – Page 31
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News‘Z-Boat’ expands access for hydro survey
For hydrographic surveys in shallow inshore waters such as rivers, canals, lakes and ponds, access to the site can sometimes be the biggest headache of the entire survey.
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Award won for mapping of US west coast
Fugro has completed data acquisition and processing of the entire United States West Coast under a contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in support of their National Coastal Mapping Programme.
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NewsScouting for munitions in cruise terminal
Supported by Sonardyne International Ltd’s Scout USBL acoustic positioning technology, ARA Incorporated has recently completed a subsurface survey of Terminal 91 in the Port of Seattle.
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NewsCPT system for marine renewables work
Coastline Surveys has taken delivery of its new Datem 5000 CPT System, C-Pen35.
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Funding for study of sediment properties
Scientists at HR Wallingford in the UK have received research funding for a pilot project aimed at investigating the measurement of cohesive sediment properties using high frequency underwater acoustics.
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51st Marine Measurement Forum
Abstracts or proposals for 15-20 minute presentations on any aspect of marine measurement technology are invited by The Hydrographic Society UK as hosts of the 51st Marine Measurement Forum (MMF) in Southampton on Wednesday 5 December.
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Seabed digital elevation model launched
Marine environmental data management and publishing specialists OceanWise of Hampshire UK have launched a series of off the shelf marine mapping datasets claimed to meet the most demanding applications.
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NewsMMT completes German cable route survey
Gothenburg based MMT reports successful completion of a major geophysical cable route survey for the Amrumbank West offshore wind farm project in the German Bight sector of the North Sea.
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PGS to conduct oil surveys off Crete
Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) of Norway, which maintains a fleet of 14 offshore seismic survey vessels supported by 21 data processing centres, has been selected by Greece’s Energy Ministry to conduct preliminary research for potential offshore oil and gas deposits south of Crete and off the western mainland.
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Hydro12 Set for Rotterdam
President of the International Hydrographic Organization, Captain Robert Ward is to provide the opening address at the International Federation of Hydrographic Societies’ 17th European conference in Rotterdam from 13-15 November.
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Hydro 12 debut for WASSP multibeam system
WASSP of Auckland plans a first European showing of its new WASSP S multibeam sounder at the Hydro 12 international hydrographic symposium in Rotterdam this November.
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Subsea 7 selects EIVA software
Subsea 7, Aberdeen based seabed to surface engineering, construction and services provider for the offshore energy industry, is to standardise on use of EIVA software for all its vessels requiring a full survey and positioning software package.
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Seismic contracts for Dolphin Geophysical
Oslo based Dolphin Geophysical is to carry out new 3D multi-client surveys offshore Lebanon using its high capacity seismic vessel, Polar Duke. Beginning this September, project coverage comprises an area of around 1,500 sq/km, with data due to be delivered to clients by the end of the year.
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Seabeam for latest Alfred Wenger vessel
L-3 ELAC Nautik of Kiel has been commissioned to deliver and install a SeaBeam 1180 shallow water multibeam system aboard Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar & Marine Research’s new 21m vessel being built by Fassmer at its Berne yard in Germany.
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NewsNew Fugro survey vessel
Dutch survey group Fugro has added to its global vessel replacement programme with the recent launch of a third dedicated ship for offshore survey projects in Asia-Pacific waters, Fugro Equator.
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Gardline Baltic wind farm
Great Yarmouth UK based Gardline Geosciences, in association with GEO of Denmark, has been awarded contracts worth €18 million by Spanish combine Iberdrola under which it will carry out preliminary geological surveys for the proposed Wikinger offshore German wind farm in the Baltic.
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UK mapping and monitoring projects
The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) at Southampton is to head two projects collectively worth £720,000 for investigating use of robot submarines.
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Entire Malta EEZ surveyed
Remote sensing specialist Terra Imaging, which has bases in France, Germany and Holland, reports successful airborne mapping of the entire Maltese archipelago from ocean floor to church spires.
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NewsRed Sea subsea mount discovered
A hitherto unknown underwater mount the size of the Rock of Gibraltar has been discovered in the southern Red Sea.
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NewsGeo Plus extends vessel fleet
Geo Plus of Scheemda in northern Holland has extended its fleet of survey vessels with the commissioning of a seventh designed for continuous 24 hour operation over periods of up to two weeks, ''Geo Focus''.
