TAG: hydrographic

Machine-control positioning enabled Sandpiper to precisely place in 3D the cutter suction head on the dredge frame in real time.

Dredging replenishes Australia’s Sorrento Beach

November 19, 2015

Shifting sands in Australia’s Port Phillip Bay left a popular beach without enough sand this past holiday season. As summer approached, the Mornington Peninsula Shire and Australian Department of Environment and Primary Industries (DEPI) decided to replenish Sorrento beach by dredging a nearby sandbank.


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Down in the Flood with GPS

March 31, 2015

Surveyors, prepare to get your feet wet. Global warming is about to hit you in the job list. By 2050, a majority of U.S. coastal areas are likely to be threatened by 30 or more days of flooding each year. This according to a December report in Earth’s Future, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.


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