Depth contours, georeferenced orthophotos, and reservoir capacity reports — tied to survey-grade control and delivered as CAD-ready DXF.
Illustration: a bathymetric chart of a reservoir showing nested depth contours, parallel survey transect lines, and a survey vessel tracking along a line.
Depth and bottom-terrain mapping of reservoirs, lakes, ponds, tailings and settling ponds, and channels. A single-beam echo sounder paired with RTK positioning logs soundings along planned transects.
Storage capacity and sediment accumulation for reservoirs; stockpile and pit volumes for aggregate and mining sites. Volumes computed against a defined datum with a documented method.
One continuous survey across the waterline: sonar below, RTK and drone topography above, merged into a single surface. No seam where the shoreline meets the map.
Every project ships in formats an engineer or CAD tech can open and use directly — no proprietary viewer required.
Horizontal and vertical control is established with RTK GNSS and stated on every deliverable. Soundings are reduced to a common datum before gridding, so depths and volumes reference a fixed elevation you can verify.
Contour interval, coordinate system, and output formats are set to your project at scoping. Default output is a 1-ft contour map plus a georeferenced ortho; volumetric jobs add a stage-storage table.
Transect spacing and control are set to the site and the contour interval the deliverable requires.
RTK GNSS ties every sounding to survey-grade horizontal and vertical control.
A single-beam echo sounder logs depth along transects, with overlapping lines run for check.
Soundings are reduced to a common datum, gridded, and contoured.
Contour map, ortho, capacity report, and DXF — with the control and datum documented.
Professional Land Surveyor licensed in Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma. A boundary and topographic survey practice now covers hydrographic and volumetric work — the same control discipline, applied to the parts of a site that sit underwater.
It's a solo operation, which means you deal directly with the surveyor doing the work, from scoping through the sealed deliverable.
Send the location and what you need to know — capacity, sediment, a contour map, or a volume — and you'll get a scope and a fixed quote back.
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