HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY
Fig. 4. Access to the waterside is sometimes difficult. Image: Pangea srl
Te data deliverables were bathymetry and side scan data processed by GS+ as well as depth profiles exported directly from the real-time data collection windows. Te real-time side scan data displays also proved to be very useful for data interpretation on-site. Te images accompanying this article show a few of the installations used and bathymetric survey results. After carrying out successful survey seasons in 2008 and ’09 Pangea can report that the compact GeoSwath Plus is suitable for this type of small boat hydrography in harsh environments. Tis project has shown that modern highly accurate wide swath hydrographic survey equipment can be economically deployed for restricted area surveys, with rapid mobilisation and limited time on-site. Even the smallest hydropower dam can be fully mapped quickly and efficiently. Tis type of mapping capability can be used to increase the safety and efficient operation of small-hydro projects worldwide.
Carlo Peris is with Pangea srl, Civitavecchia, Italy. www.
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one hour. Te biggest problem usually encountered was how to get the equipment from the van to the waterside and back.
Tom Hiller is Advanced Products Manager with GeoAcoustics Ltd, Great Yarmouth, UK.
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Record-breaking results from Oceanology International 2010
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ceanology International 2010, the global forum for the ocean science and marine technology community
saw record-breaking attendance when it was held at London’s ExCeL. Over the three days 6921 people from 75 countries attended Oceanology International (a 4 per cent increase on the 6643 who attended in 2008), filling the conference halls and ensuring busy stands and aisles throughout the exhibition with its 500-plus exhibiting companies, visiting the vessels moored alongside the exhibition hall, and benefiting from the networking events. Event Manager, James Coleman said: “With
38.42 per cent of all attendees coming from overseas, and 62.9 per cent of our 537 exhibitors from over 30 overseas countries we can rightfully claim to be a global forum. This year was certainly a year of records – more exhibitors than ever before filling an exhibition that was over 7 per cent larger than the previous one held in 2008; a world-class conference with day-long sessions on ocean observation and forecasting; navigation and positioning; hydrography/ geophysics; marine environment; and geotechnics;
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and a special New Scientist session on offshore renewables.” The Awards Ceremony held on opening day
saw six awards made with the richly deserved award of the Oceanology International Lifetime Achievement Award being made to Ian Gallett of the Society for Underwater Technology. Matthew Quartley, Managing Director of Valeport Limited won the Association of Marine Scientific Industries (AMSI) Business Person of the Year Award; the Alan Greig Memorial Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Commercial Operational Oceanography 2010 was awarded to Rhoderick Powell, Metocean Advisor, AGIP KCO; and The Bob Barton Memorial Award which aims to recognise excellence in writing and reporting on marine science, engineering and technology was awarded to Phil McKenna, who is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The BP Postgraduate award for best MSc
thesis for the academic year 2008-09 in the fields of Offshore and Subsea Engineering and Technology was awarded to Ani Bede Chinedu from the University of Aberdeen for his thesis entitled ‘Analysis of Large Diameter Catenary Risers
for Oil Production in Moderate Water Depths’; and Benjamin Loveday from the University of Southampton won the Fugro GEOS Award for best MSc thesis for the academic year 2008-09 in Meteorology, Physical Oceanography or Applied Oceanography was awarded to for his thesis ‘Using Data from Autonomous Underwater Gliders to Assess the Performance of Ocean Forecast Models in the Northwest Mediterranean Sea’. Both won cheques for £500. The Oceanology International website carries
preview information from many of the 550 exhibitors about the highlights of their exhibit; other launch announcements were made at the show, such as Applanix’s introduction of the latest LANDMark Marine mobile mapping solution. LANDMark Marine enables the creation of seamless models of near shore environments by providing a highly accurate georeferenced point cloud which integrates with equivalent multibeam sonar data.
For more information, visit
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