Survey vessel

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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
marine archaeology

Survey 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
Inertial Measurement Unit

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