Case Studies

Coastal Data Democracy with Uncrewed Vessels

By HydroSurv / 7 February 2024 /

Introduction Bergen-based startup, Nordic USV, is on a mission to find new ways of monitoring the coast, aiming to eliminate barriers and open opportunities to ensure that ocean data and knowledge is accessible to all coastline stakeholders. The company wants to do this by automating services and making them easy to use, connecting customers directly…

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HydroSurv Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) on the sea with a bouy in the foreground and a boat and coastline in the background

USV Technology Integration for Offshore Data Harvesting

By HydroSurv / 28 June 2022 /

This project demonstrated the application of HydroSurv Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) and Sonardyne acoustic communications technology for rapid environmental data collection to Blue Gem Wind, Simply Blue Group and Offshore Wind Consultants (OWC) focusing on the Valorous Floating Offshore Wind (FLOW) Project.  The demonstration, which took place in the Celtic Sea, was part of an…

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Hydrographic survey

Case Studies: Manx Utilities Reservoir Hydrographic Survey

By HydroSurv / 7 July 2019 /

Asset owners responsible for managing water resource require a detailed understanding the depth and morphology of reservoirs to understand the volumes of raw water available to treatment works and nowhere is this more important than the Isle of Man where utility engineers have limited options available to overcome water shortages caused under circumstances such as…

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Images from underwater photogrammetry

Case Studies: North Hallsands Underwater Photogrammetry

By HydroSurv / 14 May 2019 /

Underwater photogrammetry, whilst generally accepted to be at an experimental phase of development, shows promise as an alternative or complementary dataset to hydroacoustic survey in very shallow-water environments, particularly for applications such as characterizing habitats including spawning grounds for rare fish species. HydroSurv has been investigating the development of 3D models of underwater environments using…

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Small USV in an estuary

Case Studies: Exe Estuary Rapid Environmental Assessment Demo

By HydroSurv / 3 June 2018 /

Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs) offer the potential for groundbreaking changes to the way waterborne site investigators collect data, not only for routine hydrographic surveys, but also for contingency assignments where existing data does not exist or may be unreliable. For many, this type data collection may be a part of, but not the sole focus,…

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