Horizontal Accuracy Issues During MBES Surveys

Abstract

High-resolution Multibeam Echosounder shallow water surveys should not be performed with DGPS (Differential Global Positioning System), especially where feature detection is a priority. Despite the fact that International Hydrographic Organization most demanding Special Order Specification allows for 2 meters horizontal positioning level, it poorly interacts with horizontal centimetric level nadir footprint, causing degradation of bathy-metric data.