Fugro has won a contract to shoot a bathymetric survey along the Andhra Pradesh coast in south-eastern India.
Fugro has won a contract to shoot a bathymetric survey along the Andhra Pradesh coast in south-eastern India. The survey for India’s National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) will facilitate the Indian Government’s plans to develop the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) to benefit the coastal community and protect marine living resources. The data will also be used for scientific research projects and coastal resilience studies such as assessment of coastal vulnerabilities and geohazard potential and ocean climate change.
The six-month project started in November 2021. Fugro will survey around 56,000-line km of coastline in total, collecting bathymetric data in water depths between High Tide Line (HTL) and 30 m.
To gather insights about the seabed, Fugro is using a shallow-water boat equipped with a dual frequency echosounder and a differential global positioning system for data acquisition. For surveying in very shallow water (up to 5 m) and the surf zone area, the Fugro team is going to use a jet ski-equipped with Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) and a single beam echosounder. Real-time kinematic positioning (RTK) technology is being used for topography survey.
