Professional Hydrographic Surveying from Field to Final.

Bathymetric Surveys

Single Beam & Multibeam Hydrographic Surveys.

Survey lines are planned in HYPACK before the crew leaves the office. On the water, positions come from RTK or DGPS, and bottom elevations are tied to established vertical control. Single beam surveys cover long reaches and cross sections efficiently; DIMCO’s in-house multibeam system adds full-bottom coverage where more detail is needed.

• Rivers, channels and navigation waterways
• Harbors, ports, lakes and reservoirs
• Bays and coastal waters
• Edited in HYPACK and delivered in the client’s format and datum

ADCP & Discharge Measurement

Measuring How Water Moves.

Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers measure how much water a river is carrying and how fast it is moving. DIMCO runs a fathometer, DGPS and a heading sensor alongside the ADCP to correct for moving-bed and magnetic errors, so measurements hold up in high, fast flows.

• River discharge measurements
• Current speed and direction studies for docks, moorings and structures
• High-water and flood-condition measurements
• Reports with discharge, velocities, cross-section area and water temperature

Shallow Water & Difficult Access

Surveying Where Conventional Access Is Not Enough.

Not every survey can be collected from a 24-foot boat. DIMCO surveys small creeks, canals and marshes from jon boats, air boats and float tubes—and on foot in waders when that is the only way in.

That lets us work in marshes, flooded timber, shallow lakes and other places conventional survey boats can’t reach—tied to the same control as the rest of the project.