Coastal and Marine Resources and Hydrography Survey

Introduction

Coastal and Marine Resources (CMR)

The Coastal and Marine Resources Core Lab is a complete marine station specializing in marine operations, oceanographic instrumentation and wet lab experimentation. It operates a fleet of boats and Saudi Arabia’s first fully equipped research vessel, the RV Thuwal. The RV Thuwal was fitted with a Kongsberg EM 710 in 2017. Since then, hundreds of hours of survey have been logged.

Interactive 3D

Model of the RV Thuwal

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CMR future

The CMR team is always looking to the future. Using World Hydrography Day—with this year’s theme of “Enabling Autonomous Technologies”—as a springboard, CMR team members are examining what we can develop to help KAUST scientists and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in hydrographic research.

Multibeam data

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Latest news

High resolution 3d mapping of reefs in the Red Sea

23 June, 2021

 

After a long break from survey due to COVID and our recent dry dock our Research Vessel Thuwal is getting back to sea. Using the hull mounted Kongsberg EM 710 we started the multibeam mapping in mid June 2021 and is scheduled to continue for many weeks. Initial results are stunning and many strange seabed features are being detected everyday.

 

After a quick preliminary process we convert into a VR format and load into our 3d cube system to take a virtual walk through of the seabed surveyed the day before.


 



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