HMS Scott: United Kingdom Ocean Survey Ship
HMS Scott: United Kingdom Ocean Survey Ship
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Minimizing the cost per survey mile while ensuring that survey products meet required standards is a prime consideration when evaluating oceanographic surveying systems. This was one of the prime factors that led to the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense Procurement Executive (UK MOD PE) selection of a U.S. Navy-designed ocean survey system to be installed aboard a new construction ship. The 13,500-ton HMS Scott was designed and built specifically to accommodate the U.S. survey system and is considered the UK's premier survey ship. The mission of HMS Scott is to gather, process, and record time-correlated bathymetric, gravity, magnetic, and other oceanographic data as a function of latitude and longitude. Since its deployment in early 1998, HMS Scott has successfully conducted highly accurate bathymetric surveys at an average sustained speed of 12 knots in ocean depths ranging from 50 fathoms to approximately 2500 fathoms in various types of terrain, from flat to very high relief.
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HMS Scott: United Kingdom Ocean Survey Ship
2001
11 pages
Report
No indication
English
Physical & Chemical Oceanography , Marine Engineering , Naval vessels , Bathymetry , Surveys , Data acquisition , Oceanographic ships , United kingdom , Data processing , Control systems , Navigation computers , Variable depth sonar , Depth , Global positioning system , Inertial navigation , Latitude , Longitude , Loran , Power distribution , Military oceanography , Marine navigation , Survey ships , Ocean survey system , Bathymetric charts , Oss(Ocean survey system) , Wide swath sonar , Depth measurements
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