Soundings

A complete survey, data-processing and chart-delivery operations platform for an independent hydrographic survey company. The signature Survey Board carries every job as a dense engraved register row — job number, client and water body, survey type (multibeam bathymetric, side-scan mosaic, pre/post-dredge, cable route, wreck search), vessel, IHO order, area in square kilometres, line-km run against plan, tidal datum and positioning mode, hydrographer, an eight-stage pipeline from Planning to Delivered, and hard flags for SOUND VELOCITY OVERDUE, PATCH TEST FAILED, GAP IN COVERAGE, IHO ORDER NOT MET and DELIVERY PAST DUE. Behind it: line plans with plotted coverage and holidays, a per-day acquisition log with sea state, sound-velocity casts and downtime reasons, a sounding & QC register checking total vertical and horizontal uncertainty against the IHO allowance, the vessel and sensor fleet with calibration and patch-test dates, tide gauges and datum separations, chart compilation and ENC delivery with revision history, pre- versus post-dredge volume certification, and contracts with day-rate and weather-standby claims. Clients get their own portal showing survey progress, the coverage plot, least depths per berth pocket, the IHO order achieved and downloadable deliverables. Drawn entirely as 19th-century Admiralty copperplate chart engraving — hairline bathymetric contours, stippled shoals, a drawn compass rose, scattered engraved depth figures and a ruled title cartouche, with zero photography.