Surveying in the Forest Pit

With survey sites resembling scenes from the Jurassic era, Statewide Land Surveying (OR, USA) were recently in action conducting surveys of small ponds with extreme canopy overhang in the Pacific Northwest.  It was impossible to safely launch or use a USV, and with extreme vegetation and debris in the water the CEESCOPE™ echo sounder with its detailed water column echogram could be used to gather accurate bathymetry data. With no usable GNSS, a total station was used to track position of a custom floating CEESCOPE™ echo sounder towed by a surveyor in a float tube. Statewide’s CEE-LINK™ radio, usually used as a USV shore station, was pressed into service transmitting the echo sounder data to the shore PC running Hydromagic.