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 …

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 …

As part of their unmanned vehicle surveying program, Statewide’s new CEE-USV hydrographic survey drone boat was in action performing a pre-dredge survey at Detroit Lake in Oregon, USA. Able to weave between the hundreds of moored boats in the marina, the CEE-USV was the perfect way to maximize single beam echo sounder coverage in the confined spaces of the survey …

For basic hydrographic surveys, collecting echo sounder bathymetry data using a GNSS field data collector or tablet may be a cost effective approach for land survey firms to conduct small surveys in rivers, lakes, ponds and industrial water reservoirs. Although limited in quality control processes and data density versus a hydrographic survey methods using dedicated software, the approach is valid …

The new Belisama Inception USV, carrying the CEE HydroSystems CEESCOPE-USV™ “all in one” echo sounder, positioning, and data telemetry package was recently in action conducting a single beam survey in Tarragona Harbor, Spain. Restricted access made the job ideal for a USV, and the 16 line-km of survey was covered by a two-person crew. HYPACK® software was used for acquisition, …

American Engineers Inc (AEI) recently added Hydrographic Surveying to their range of in-house survey capabilities, with the acquisition of a state of the art CEE HydroSystems single beam sonar survey package with a remotely-operated unmanned surface vehicle (USV). CEE delivered the custom USV, built around the unique modular CEESCOPE-USV echo sounder system, with HYPACK hydrographic acquisition software offering AEI a complete …

CEE HydroSystems announce the release of their latest “all in one” hydrographic single beam echo sounder survey system, designed for users wishing to obtain the benefits of precise multi-constellation GNSS positioning through the flexible Hemisphere Atlas® L-Band subscription service. With the new Hemisphere GNSS P326 Eclipse™ OEM receiver installed inside the waterproof CEESCOPE™ enclosure, the latest CEE package offers a …

Swathe Services (Truro, UK) recently started trials of their first remotely-operated survey boat, jointly developed with local partner MSDS Marine. The Inception class portable USV is a professional hydrographic survey vehicle for single beam and multibeam surveying. A robust aluminum-hulled catamaran with dual weed-resistant thrusters, the main design goal was to provide maximum utility with minimum complexity, eliminating the often …

CEE HydroSystems added two new distributors supporting hydrographic customers in the Southeastern USA. Based in Lakeland, Florida, Measutronics are an established Trimble Marine dealer and Service Center and are active selling GNSS positioning, advanced LiDAR and multibeam echo sounder packages to the marine construction and hydrographic survey industries. Aqua-Tech Services of Broussard, Louisiana supply rental equipment to the offshore oil …