Mapping the geography and seabed in coastal waters poses specific, unique challenges as it means conducting detailed, highly accurate mapping exercises onboard moving marine vessels, frequently in shallow, narrow, and rough waters.   

The Applanix Mobile Mapping solution for harbour mapping is a proven method for acquiring and characterizing information that is vital for marine infrastructure management. No matter what the goal - acquiring video log data for port and harbour asset inventory, coastal zone management, marine hazard mapping, or management projects to satisfy government regulations – our mobile mapping solution is the single most cost effective way to acquire quality marine infrastructure GIS data.

The Applanix POS MV™ system provides a precisely georeferenced GPS/Inertial navigation system, necessary for harbour mappping. The POS MV is designed to compute vessel position, velocity, attitude, and heave, together with acceleration and angular rate vectors.   

The Applanix LANDMark Marine for mobile mapping solution is one of the industry’s first LiDAR and camera imaging system for surface mapping suitable for operation on a marine vessel and delivers unparalleled data acquisition and processing capabilities essential for port and harbour mapping.  LANDMark Marine is a complete shoreline mapping solution for marine vessels.

See our case studies below.

The Coastal Institute at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of
Oceanography is involved in a program to protect the Narragansett Bay estuary and
its watershed.

The Port of London Authority is charged with ensuring navigational safety and port security along the tidal river Thames.

The mission was to survey the condition not only of the seabed, but also the quay walls and dockside structures.  The survey vessel was equipped with a Reson 8125 multibeam sonar and Applanix POS MV 320 aided inertial navigation system. A LiDAR and acquisition system were installed and a survey of Gladstone dock undertaken. The multibeam and laser data were combined in order to produce a seamless point cloud model of the dock. Some examples are shown below (the yellow is the multibeam data, the purple through green data is laser data).