For 2019 CEESCOPE models onwards, built-in differential GPS receivers will be exclusively Hemisphere’s Eclipse OEM receiver. Replacing the older Crescent and NovAtel OEMStar GPS boards, the Eclipse represents a huge increase in specifications for even the most basic CEESCOPE models. The latest Eclipse receiver, integrated at the electronic board level inside the CEESCOPE, offers an enormous increase in available channels, …

Barges and tow boats are used for transporting dry cargo along the Mississippi River system. From the lower Mississippi up the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers, goods such as grain, coal and soy beans travel to the gulf coast for export and steel and other products come into the US interior. Navigating barges along a flowing river is a difficult task! …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …