Surveying and Monitoring

Surveying and monitoring are two separate processes, both of which have an essential role in dredging operations.

Monitoring

Monitoring is the process of examining certain parameters and observing and checking the progress or quality of the dredging works over a period of time.

Adaptive Management

“Facts About Adaptive Management” describes how monitoring at intervals during a project supports decision-making process to modify operations as needed.

Environmental Monitoring

Environmental monitoring is used to protect marine fauna and flora and should be conducted before, during and after a dredging operation.

Aerial Survey Techniques Applied for Stockpile Progress Measurements

Multicopters, unmanned aerial surveyors, can fly and take pictures in difficult-to-reach or potentially dangerous areas, improving the speed and safety of acquiring data.

Monitoring Programme for the MV2, Part IV – Archaeological and Palaeontological Finds

Amongst all the studies done at the MV2 Port of Rotterdam expansion, none was more exciting than the discovery of the Middle Stone Age civilisation that flourished on the Maas-Rhine delta 9,000 years ago.

Monitoring Programme for the Maasvlakte 2, Part III – The Effects of Underwater Sound

TNO’s acoustic surveys of dredgers during all phases of the dredging cycle showed that permanent hearing threshold shift was not exceeded in any cases studied or in any species in question.

The Monitoring Programme for the Maasvlakte 2 Construction at the Port of Rotterdam – Part II

Given the inter-dependence of the underwater food chain from benthic fauna and algae to shells, worms, fish and birds, a new modelling strategy was instituted to evaluate the effects of enhanced silt concentrations during dredging.