Trimble SPS880 (R8)
The Trimble R8 is a 24-channel, dual-frequency GPS receiver, GPS antenna, and data-link radio combined in one compact unit and weighing just 1.3 kg. (2.9 lb).
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Using Trimble SPS880 GPS for survey.
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- Nome Navigation Improvements
- Nome, Alaska
- We were contracted by a large construction company to establish a control network and to provide progress checks for hydrographic and topographic surveys for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) - Alaska District in Nome, Alaska. Our surveying services were used to support the design project for a new harbor and entrance. Included in the project was also a large breakwater extending offshore.
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- Post Hurricane Ike Emergency Call-out Clearance Surveys
- Various Locations, Texas
- Working closely with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) - Galveston District, along with NOAA's National Weather Service and other agencies, we developed a plan of action before Hurricane Ike hit the Texas coastline.
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- NOAA - Alaska IDIQ Contract for Hydrographic Surveys and Related Services
- Various Locations, Alaska
- Since 1998, we have supplied the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) with hydrographic data of 100% bottom coverage with shallow-water multibeam sonar systems.
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- USACE - Alaska IDIQ Contract for Hydrographic Surveys and Related Services
- Various Locations, Alaska
- Since 1995, we have provided the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) - Alaska District with hydrographic, topographic, and Global Positioning System (GPS) control surveys; aerial photography; LiDAR mapping; and tide studies on over five hundred projects throughout Alaska.
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- USACE - Texas IDIQ Contract for Hydrographic Surveys and Related Services
- Various Locations, Texas
- Since 2003, TerraSond has provided and continues to provide hydrographic surveys and related support services for the Galveston District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).
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- Channel Clearance Surveys - Louisiana
- Port of Iberia, Louisiana
- We conducted two channel clearance surveys in the Port of Iberia Channel. The first was a comprehensive bottom and debris survey using sidescan and multibeam sonars for the egress route for an oil platform module along an 8-mile stretch of the Iberia Navigation Canal. Additional geophysical surveys were done for clearance at two docks along the route at the Port of Iberia.
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- Lake Travis Multibeam and Sidescan
- Lake Travis, Texas
- An engineering firm contracted us to conduct RTK multibeam bathymetric and side scan sonar surveys of three locations within Lake Travis, Texas. Lake Travis is the main reservoir feeding the Austin, TX area and is located in the Hill Country of Texas at an elevation of roughly 700 ft. NAVD 88. The purpose of the survey was to locate the 655 ft. contour on the lakebed for designing a new water intake valve to feed nearby towns, like Volente, Texas.
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