Fugro LADS offers a genuine, total airborne LiDAR bathymetry survey solution, requiring minimal effort, intervention or logistical support from clients.

It comprises the following stages:

1. Reconnaissance - Desk study and field investigations are initially conducted to support survey design
2. Survey planning - A detailed survey plan and fixed price quotation is supplied
3. Site set-up - The LADS Mk II airborne system, ground system and personnel deployed to the operating site
4. Data collection - Following a static calibration of all positioning systems, daily data collections begins
5. Data delivery - Can deliver interim digital hydrographic data, in defined ASCII formats to specification, within 24 hours of acquisition
6. Support for charting - The data processing system has been designed from the ground up to produce data suitable for nautical charting. Standard nautical charting deliverables and smooth sheets can be produced to cartographic standards if required
7. Complementary products - In addition to hydrographic products based on bathymetry data Fugro LADS can produce a range of complementary products. Digital mosaic images of the survey area, relative reflectivity data and plots as well as seabed classification products are all available. The seabed classification products are produced in partnership with Quester Tangent Corporation

Fugro LADS provide fixed-price quotations for the provision of data for a defined survey area and application, based on standard commercial Terms and Conditions the client’s Statement of Work and risk profile.

Indicative quotations are available on request.