Fugro Oceansismica S.p.A.

Fugro Oceansismica specialises to provide analogue geophysical surveys in very shallow to deep waters with a comprehensive array of sensors to image the sea floor and the sediment layers beneath including:

Multi-beam echo-sounders, Side-scan sonars, Sub-bottom profilers, Surface and Sub-tow boomers, Sparkers and Mini air-gun systems, Magnetometers.

Comprehensive processing and data presentation services provide the client with the survey results in quality assured, conventional presentation formats. These formats include various types of digital and CAD formats as well as traditional paper charts: contoured and annotated topography, seabed features, seafloor mosaicing, soil types, captioned sub-surface stratigraphy and sections

Coastal management and engineering surveys

Fugro Oceansismica can provide a range of specialised inshore survey systems, vessels and teams to meet the requirements of the port, harbour and coastal engineering and construction community, including:

- Hydrographic surveys
- Navigation clearance surveys
- Surveys for dredging works
- Monitoring services for beach and foreshores, sediment dynamics and recycling
- Research of relict sands to be used for beach re-nourishment projects

Site surveys

We can rapidly mobilise any kind of survey vessel and undertake a wide range of site survey tasks including:

Bathymetric charting of the sea floor plus its features for a wide range of safety-critical and engineering applications

Location and identification of man-made artifacts including wrecks and sub-sea structures
Profiles of the soils and rock structure beneath the seabed for engineering studies and design
Collecting surface and sub-surface soil samples for geotechnical assessment
Locating and identifying geo-hazards such as shallow gas and hydrates to enable drilling, engineering and hydrocarbon recovery operations to be conducted in a safe and efficient manner.

Route surveys for pipes and cables

Fugro Oceansismica, together with other Fugro sister companies, specialise in providing a comprehensive range of route survey services, from landing and inshore to offshore route surveys, with advanced shipboard and land based processing services. These services meet the challenging demands of pipeline and telecommunication cable engineers with the latest in cost-efficient technology and services.

Archaeological and Environmental surveys

Geophysical analogue survey technologies can be applied also for marine archaeological investigations for public institutions in order to map and define old buried or exposed archaeological remains or wrecks, and to evaluate and bound possible marine archaeological parks or reserves.