Optech Debuts Turbid Water Module for CZMIL
Optech, a developer, manufacturer and support provider of high-accuracy lidar 3D survey systems and productivity-enhancing workflow software, announced the release of the HydroFusion Turbid Water Module, a powerful new tool that enables the Optech CZMIL Coastal Zone Mapping and Imaging Lidar (CZMIL) to collect bathymetry data in water conditions that were previously impossible to capture.
Based on Optech’s extensive experience in lidar bathymetry waveform analysis, the Turbid Water Module is an addition to the Optech CZMIL HydroFusion workflow specifically designed to detect and extract bathymetry measurements from turbid, shallow waters and muddy, less reflective seafloors, areas where previous lidar bathymeters could not extract depth measurements. Combined with the advanced hardware of the Optech CZMIL, the Turbid Water Module has successfully made seafloor measurements from very shallow waters (depth