Water is the main fluid used in hydraulic fracturing to produce natural gas or crude oil. Managing water for the vast southeastern US Permian Basin fracking operation is a crucial element of the production process that contributes about 45% of the total USA crude oil and 20% of its natural gas. Operators and water management companies have built thousands of …
CEE-USV and Hydromagic Used for Two-Year Wastewater Lagoon Sludge Accumulation Survey
East Coast USA construction firm Bearing Construction are supporting a large industrial food processing site with wastewater infrastructure construction and maintenance. As part of their on-site services, Bearing can deploy their in-house CEE-USV to monitor the accumulation (or removal) of wastewater sludge in the retention / treatment lagoons. An initial survey was conducted in 2023 and the sludge level was …
Large Aggregate Mine Pit Surveys go Remote with the CEE-USV
For routine monitoring of dredging activities at a historic 100-year old aggregate mine site in Irwindale, Los Angeles and other sites in the western USA region, a large mining operator invested in a CEE-USV to bring survey capability in-house. Previously, surveys were only available by contracting a local hydrographic survey company with the associated cost and logistical overhead involved with …
CEE JET Training with University of Florida – Wireless Surveying using Hydromagic
The CEE JET 1600 package includes the CEESCOPE-R™ Wi-Fi enabled echo sounder with RTK GNSS and a special enclosure designed for installation on the rear deck of a personal watercraft (PWC) / jet ski. A very useful feature of the system, especially when it comes time to conduct user training, is the provision of a WiFi access point allowing multiple …
Trinchero Family Estates use Recycled USV for Wastewater Surveys
After a fatality elsewhere in the wine industry related to wastewater lagoon operation, Napa Valley producer Trinchero Family Estates (TFE) were looking at how to reduce risk involved with their infrequent wastewater lagoon bathymetry surveys. With the current procedure involving a CEESCOPE echo sounder and jon boat with electric trolling motor, TFE were hoping to retain the CEESCOPE and Hydromagic …
CEE USA Conduct Mine Tailings Impoundment Survey “on the fly”
Mine tailings operators often need to report the volume of water in their tailings impoundments regularly or periodically for regulatory purposes; many sites also use tailings water volumes in site water balance engineering calculations. The latter might need fairly routine monitoring of the water pool. Unmanned boats (USVs) are an ideal method to survey most tailings impoundments, as personnel safety …
Wide Band Echo Sounder Boards for CEESCOPE™ and CEE ECHO™
Echo sounder operating frequencies may be set by the echo sounder electronics or the transducer used but in all cases the transducer frequency must match the frequency of the connected echo sounder. Transducers are designed to have peak performance at certain discrete frequencies; the physical characteristics of the transducer sets the frequency of operation. Very high frequency sonars not typically …
A Horrible USV Survey Challenge – With AKS Engineering & Forestry LLC
Surveyors at Oregon, USA firm AKS Engineering & Forestry LLC might have set a new record for CEE equipment users while working on recent wastewater lagoon surveys – the dirtiest USV in action! AKS recently completed a hydrographic survey for an industrial client; while the wastewater environment is a common application for the CEE-USV™, this particular site had some fairly …
User Perspectives – From a Basic Echo Sounder to the CEE ECHO™ with Lani Maritime
Canadian marine construction and survey specialist Lani Maritime’s principal Chris Kirby decided that it was time to upgrade their basic pole mounted echo sounder with a higher-grade system, and selected the CEE ECHO™. Here is what Chris had to say about the project: “After 30 years in the Maritime Industry, I decided to give it a go on my own …
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