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Marine Field Operations

CSA International has an extensive track record conducting field operations for scientific data gathering. CSA International provides biological, geological, chemical, and physical oceanographic services for baseline and monitoring field surveys, including photodocumentation (underwater video and still camera), side-scan sonar, subbottom profiling, vibracoring, and bathymetric studies. Multidisciplinary data in marine and estuarine environments have been collected throughout the United States and at many international locations using conventional and state-of-the-art equipment and techniques. CSA's equipment, operational and scientific personnel, and quality assurance/quality control plans ensure the collection of quality data. Marine field surveys frequently involve the integrated use of various individual operations combined in a manner appropriate to the overall data requirements for a specific project. CSA personnel have developed efficient techniques to analyze the collected data and display the results with easy-to-interpret maps and other forms of data presentations. CSA provides clients with survey data in a variety of digital data formats including ArcInfo/ArcView Geographic Information System (GIS) coverages.

Examples of CSA International's Marine Field Operations Services: