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2007-8 Projects

Name Title
Abdelgelil, Ahmed Underkeel Clearances
Abdel Hamid, Iman Trim, Settlement & Squat – Use of RTK-GPS to determine vessel attitude
Cezard, Baptiste Comparison of Data Acquisition & Processing – Using the GeoSwath Plus and QINSy software packages
De Vries, Alexander Changes in Salt Marsh Habitat on the Upper Reaches of the River Tamar
Eve, Donatien Comparison of EM3002 backscatter processed with Geocoder and grab sampled data, Plymouth Sound.
Granjard, Gaelle Study of Positioning Accuracies and Range from Base Station Feasibility when processing using OS Networks.
Harris, Daley Assessment of Flocculation Characteristics in the Tamar Estuary at Neap Tidal conditions
Ledger, Nicolas Site investigations and validation of the location of the Q-ship Stock Force.
Luaran, Nosius Sounding Algorithms Method for High Density Bathymetric Data
Mills, Devon Comparison Data Quality: Analogue -v- Digital Sidescan Sonar
Pike, James Optimal Acoustic Settings for GeoSwath Data Acquisition to Discriminate Sediment Type and Distribution for habitat Mapping
Rogers, Luke Quantification and Visualisation of “Dive” Wrecks in Lyme Bay.
Wilson, Olivia The relationship between bathymetry and estuarine frontsImpact of Speed of Light in Water on the Accuracy of Bathymetric Lidar.

2006-7 Projects - Small Sample only

Name Title
Zoe Brooking Assessment of GeoSwath Plus and GeoTexture for Habitat Mapping
Ian Hattam Effectiveness of MBE and Sidescan Sonar in mapping the “Coronation” Wreck Site
Neil Hewitt A Practical Assessment of the Reduction of Soundings to Datum Using RTK Heights
Robert Morley Analysis of the Offshore Surveyor’s Role – More Than Just a Button Pusher?
David Sweet A Comparison between MBE Backscatter and Traditional Sidescan Sonar for seabed Imaging

2005-6 Projects

Name Title
Braybon, Mark Oblique Photogrammetric Bathymetric Surveying of an Intertidal Estuarine Zone
Crevy, Alexandre Past and future Change of the Coastline at Slapton Sands as assessed from Historical Records and Numerical Modelling Data, Integrated into GIS
Faithfull, Anna The use of GIS Mapping and Analysis to establish marine Protected areas for the specific protection of Cetaceans
Lecaplain, Mathieu Study of the Sand Bar in the Yealm River Estuary
Murray, Craig A Laboratory study of the effects of turbulent shearing on flocculated high concentration cohesive sediment suspensions
Pacey, Mark Study of the acoustic properties of different materials & shapes in order to design a shield to reduce the effects of deep seismic noise pollution on marine life
Prins, Thijs A Comparison of Motion Sensors - Analysis of the Common Dataset
Rogers, David Longitudinal Study of Seabed Change and Wreck Attitude at the Artificial Reef 'Scylla'
Roucher, Benoit A Comparison of Two Swath Softwares: GeoSwath Plus and Reson's PDS2000
Slade, Iain Error Budgets for LIDAR Systems
Smith, Lewis The Development of Coastline Survey techniques: the state of airborne and space-based survey methods and applications
Thebault, Amelie The Impact of Dredging on Archaeological resources - Case Study North of Plymouth Sound
Thomas, David A Comparative Study of RTK-GPS and HP-GPS for Centimetre Level Tidal Height Monitoring
Trincali, Julien Comparison of several techniques of interpolation for chart production of single-beam bathymetric data
Yap, Andrew Impact of Land Reclamation work on seabed Profile and Hydrologic properties in Singapore

Pre 2005 Projects

Name Title
Damien Allain Pseudo-range 3D positioning
Miguel Amengual Near surface geology of Plymouth Sound
Helen Deniaud Migration of the Slapton Barrier Beach
Francis Elsworth Circulation characteristics in the lower Tamar
Chika Emebo Pipeline Route EIA using GIS and sensitivity analysis
Angafa-a George RS mapping of Nigerian Coastline
Johanna Hart Beach changes at Cawsand
Edward Jones Cable routeing in extreme topography
Christian Malmquist Dual-head multibeam e/s error budget
Gregoire Morizet Mapping Sea Ice with Remote Sensing
Elenor Pyne GIS in Coastal Zone Management
Bruce Thompson Modelling of Surf Zone Dynamics, Sennen Cove
Elizabeth Toft The relationship between bathymetry and estuarine fronts
Roy Wollvik Evaluation of absolute positioning
Richard Coutts A tidal current atlas of the Caribbean Sea using GIS.
Maxime Even Correlation between recorded ambient noise and remote video images of breaking waves in the surf zone.
Michael Golowyn Beach change at Cawsand.
Richard Greet Long term variability and statistics of wave breaking and noise.
Johanna Hart The use of GPS to decouple vertical land movements from sea level changes at 3 Tide Gauges in the British Isles.
Paul Hunt An assessment of a Chirp sub bottom profiler for wreck surveying in underwater archaeology.
Andrew Jackson Acoustical variances in unconsolidated muds.
Gwendal Le Fol Geotechnics and survey for offshore structures.
Jessica Leow The Evaluation of Tidal Stream Regions in Cornwall and the Scilly Isles for Tidal Energy Generation
Fiona Mathers Sand bar evolution through video monitoring.
Abubakar Mustapha Coastal erosion in Nigeria, wsrt Lagos.
David Nixon Effectiveness of acoustic system calibration.
Jamie Robertson Scylla.
Helen Smith Hydrological perturbations of the tide in the River Trent.
Alexandre Soenen Mayflower tidal streams.
James Walters Irish National Seabed Survey.
David West Photography and inter-tidal areas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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