Sometimes, the use of a boat can be complicated, especially in the case of small or hard to reach rivers and lakes. The use of USV is not feasible in every situation either.

• Firstly, it is necessary to have a good point of entry to the water for deployment/recovery.
• Secondly, it may be impossible to use USV in shallow lakes with lots of seaweed.
• Last but not least, in many cases, USV should be big enough to resist the waves and a big car may be necessary to transport it.

An alternative is to fly a drone (UAV) to carry the echo sounder. A drone is compact and easy to transport and deploy. Drones also have a high precision of following planned survey lines and can be used in any place where there is at least a small area for take-off and landing near the surveyed water surface.

During the webinar, we cover

• Benefits and drawbacks of using echosounder with a drone
• Demonstration of all components of the bathymetric UAV system
• Bathymetric survey mission planning and simulation
• Data processing using Eye4Software Hydromagic.

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