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Our Customers Want to Share Their Results
Our customers are so pleased with the results they’re seeing that they want to share them with us. And with you.
This section includes submitted examples of what surveyors and educators have created with our software, just to give you a flavor of the broad range of results that are made possible with SonarWiz 5. Examples include many sonar maps and other images, plus some academic papers.
Do you want to share your results?
If you have samples that you’d like to share, please feel free to send them to us at info@chesapeaketech.com. Please be sure to include your contact information, any helpful background or description of the materials you submitted, and if we have permission to post your results to this page.
Two Ways to See a Shipwreck with SonarWiz 5
Submitted by: Garry Kozak, GK Consulting
A deep-water scan of San Francisco Bay with Klein 3000 sidescan sonar and a SeaSpy magnetometer reveals a shipwreck time forgot.
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SonarWiz 5 used in mapping shoreline seafloor in Misquamicut, Rhode Island
Submitted by: Bryan A. Oakley and Jon C. Boothroyd, University of Rhode Island
Seafloor deposition boundaries invisible from the surface are revealed using Edgetech 272 sidescan sonar recorded using SonarWiz 5.
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Estuarial mapping with SonarWiz 5 in Charleston, South Carolina
Submitted by: Dr. Scott Harris, University of Rhode Island
Coastal shelf surfaces and sediments of coarse shelly sand, fine sand, and mud were explored using Klein and Edgetech sidescan and sub-bottom sonar, recorded and post-processed with SonarWiz 5.
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Near-shore depositional platform sand sheets profiled in Matunuck, Rhode Island
Submitted by: Bryan A. Oakley and Jon C. Boothroyd, University of Rhode Island
Off-shore sites were surveyed with Edgetech 216 sidescan sonar to locate optional areas to deposit dredging materials, using SonarWiz 5.
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Unexpected Shipwreck
Submitted by: Garry Kozak, Klein Associates
An unexpected discovery in Holland while on a routine sonar test run.
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Archaeological Survey of the Potomac River
Submitted by: Brendan Burke, St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum
A thorough survey of the Potomac River, Virginia, USA, at the site of George Washington’s maritime landscape, searching for remnants of the sunken miniature ship Federalist.
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Revealing an Ancient Landscape
Submitted by: Brendan Burke, St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum
Survey to identify where to accurately predict and groundtruth archaeological sites from some of our earliest North American ancestors.
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Underwater Surveys of Lake Champlain Vermont
Submitted by: Middlebury College
This paper describes a sonar mapping project, using both sub-bottom and sidescan sonar, to chart historical artifacts, bottom bathymetry, and underwater slumps.
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Sounding a Creek
Submitted by: Brendan Burke, St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum
Survey to monitor small tributaries around our nation’s oldest port for abandoned historic watercraft such as canoes, flat boats, and small sailing craft.
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Share Your Result
We love to see what our customers create and learn using our software. If you’d like to share your sonar map, research paper, sonar video, or other results, please send them to us at info@chesapeaketech.com, along with a brief description of the project and location, and permission to add the results here on our website.