Fugro Working on Chart Updates at Aleutians
Under its five-year Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Fugro Pelagos Inc. commenced surveying operations around the Aleutian chain's Krenitzin Islands, Alaska (USA) in late July 2011.
This 36-day programme of Multi Beam Echo Sounder-based bathymetry data collection for NOAA's National Ocean Service (NOS) Office of Coast Survey (OCS) will result in approximately 6,000km of survey lines being run around Akun and Akutan Islands and will provide data for updating NOAA's nautical charts of the area.
Since 2006, Fugro Pelagos has successfully completed 22 task orders for NOAA. While the data collection phase of the project is scheduled to be completed by late August 2011, data processing and product creation is expected to run through the remainder of 2011.
