Survey vessel

Survey vessel

A survey vessel is any type of ship or boat that is used for mapping. It is a type of Research vessel.

Role

The task of survey vessels is to map the bottom, benthic zone, full water column, and surface for the purpose of:
* hydrography
* general oceanography
* marine habitats
* salvage
* dredging

urvey Equipment

Typically, modern survey vessels are equipped with one or more of the following equipment:
* GPS positioning and logging
* single beam sonar
* multibeam sonar
* Side-scan sonar
* towed magnetometer
* subsurface profiler
* grab sampler
* bottom coring device
* DCHP
* CTD

Methods

ee also

*Research vessel

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