Modern Hydrographic Surveying with Newton Denny Chapelle

CEE HydroSystems recently worked with Survey and Planning firm Newton Denny Chapelle (NDC) to cover a stretch of river requiring a hydrographic survey near their office in northern New South Wales. Already offering a wide range of land-based survey services they were looking to expand their hydrographic capability and expertise and this survey task was seen as a great opportunity …

New Hydromagic Training Videos Available

A series of six in-depth training videos have been completed for CEE customers. The new tutorials with nearly five hours of training show step-by-step instruction on the hydrographic survey process using Eye4Software Hydromagic software. From equipment setup, through data acquisition, troubleshooting, editing and final product generation the videos may be used to consolidate knowledge from a CEE training course or …

CEE HydroSystems Add SBG Systems Ellipse2-E and WiFi to latest CEESCOPE™ Echo Sounder with HYPACK®

Designed for Personal Watercraft (“Jet Ski” – PWC) hydrographic surveying using HYPACK®, CEE HydroSystems’ latest CEESCOPE™ echo sounder adds a direct interface to the SBG Systems Ellipse2 GNSS aided Motion Reference Unit / Inertial Navigation System and high-power WiFi telemetry to create an even more flexible single beam “all in one” survey package. The latest CEESCOPE-R™ variant represents a particularly …

CEE HydroSystems Supply Jet Ski Survey Package

CEE HydroSystems recently supplied a unique single beam hydrographic survey package for shallow water surveys to be performed using a Jet Ski by a French survey firm on behalf of an oil major. Instead of a complete “turnkey” survey personal watercraft, CEE supplied a portable “add on” survey pack that the client could easily mount onto an existing craft. Using …

New HYPACK 2018 Driver for CEESCOPE and CEE ECHO

HYPACK has recently upgraded the hardware drivers used by the CEE ECHO and CEESCOPE echo sounders. The proprietary CEE output format that is available on these sounders applies a precise millisecond time stamp to all of the data packets – including the water column echo envelope. The method used by the HYPACK driver to handle these time stamps has been …

CEE HydroSystems Support Ayeyarwady River Project in Myanmar

In October 2017, CEE HydroSystems in conjunction with local company International Geomatic Services supplied RTK CEESCOPE “all in one” single beam hydrographic survey echo sounders together with HYPACK MAX software to the Myanmar Ayeyarwady Integrated River Basin Management Project. This is a major project funded by the World Bank to survey the river and tributaries over a number of years …

CalTrans Developing New Scour Assessment Methods Using Inertial Navigation and GPS

Bathymetric surveying under bridges represents a major challenge as a result of the partial or total obstruction of the view of GPS / GNSS satellites used for positioning. As the survey boat gets close to the bridge, position quality is first degraded and then shortly afterwards completely lost. To overcome this problem, non-GPS solutions are used such as optical positioning …

CEE HydroSystems USA Delivers ARC-Boats to California State Hydrologists

California Department of Water Resources hydrologists based in Red Bluff and Sacramento are building their unmanned survey capability by procuring several ARC-Boats, supplied by CEE HydroSystems USA for use with Sontek M9 and Teledyne RD Instruments RiverPro ADCPs. For river discharge and water velocity surveys where manned boat access is impossible, such as in front of dam structures, or where safety …

2017 CEE HydroSystems USA Summer Hydrographic Field Training

With the opening of the USA sales and support office in 2015, field training is now easily accommodated in North and South America. To make sure new customers get off to a great start, CEE are on hand to get things rolling. Whether for veteran land surveyors improving their hydrographic capabilities or complete survey novices being introduced to GPS and echo …