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Groundwater Mapping

Shallow Water Mapping focuses on environments where land and water meet — including rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, shorelines, coastal zones and shallow seabed areas.

Using drone-based bathymetric LiDAR, ROV inspections and environmental sensors, FROST helps document areas that are often difficult to survey with traditional methods.

We deliver accurate land-to-water datasets that support planning, environmental documentation, infrastructure projects, flood and erosion analysis, habitat assessment and long-term monitoring.

What is shallow water mapping?

Shallow water mapping documents aquatic and land–water transition environments, including:

Riverbeds and streams
Lakebeds and reservoirs
Nearshore and coastal zones
Shallow seabed areas
Shorelines and erosion zones
Transitional land–water interfaces

Using bathymetric green-wavelength LiDAR, combined with aerial imaging and underwater documentation where relevant, we can capture:

Terrain above water
Water surface
Seabed or riverbed
Shoreline and transition zones

This creates a continuous elevation model across land and shallow water, providing a reliable basis for analysis, planning, documentation and monitoring.

Environmental data and underwater sensors

Shallow water mapping can be complemented with underwater drone/ROV inspections and environmental sensors. This enables both spatial and environmental conditions to be documented in the same project.

Typical sensor data may include:

Temperature
Turbidity
Dissolved oxygen
pH

This enables combined analysis of:

Bathymetry and 3D mesh
Water quality and environmental conditions
Aquatic vegetation and habitat indicators
Spatial variation and environmental change over time

Applications

Typical applications include:

Shallow water and coastal mapping
Riverbed and lakebed mapping
Flood risk and hydrological analysis
Shoreline and erosion monitoring
Sediment and morphology studies
Environmental baseline mapping
Habitat and aquatic environment assessment
Infrastructure planning near water
Documentation before, during and after construction
Input data for environmental monitoring programs

Data acquisition and quality

Data quality depends on:

Water clarity
Water depth
Bottom type and reflectivity
Weather and light conditions
Waves, current and surface disturbance
Access and safety conditions

All datasets are accurately georeferenced using GNSS/IMU positioning, enabling integration with GIS, CAD, BIM and monitoring workflows.

Repeat surveys can also be used for change detection and long-term environmental monitoring.

Deliverables

We deliver analysis-ready shallow water mapping datasets, including:

Bathymetric point clouds: LAS / LAZ
Seamless land–water terrain models
Digital Terrain Models: DTM
Bathymetric models and depth maps
Orthophotos where relevant
Environmental sensor datasets: CSV
GIS-ready files
CAD-ready files
Maps, profiles and visualizations
Documentation reports

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Need reliable data across land and water?

FROST helps document shallow water environments, shorelines, rivers, lakes and coastal zones with accurate geospatial datasets.

Geospatial solutions powered by software, sensors, and AI technologies

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Groundwater Mapping

Shallow water mapping

Shallow Water Mapping focuses on environments where land and water meet — including rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, shorelines, coastal zones and shallow seabed areas.

Using drone-based bathymetric LiDAR, ROV inspections and environmental sensors, FROST helps document areas that are often difficult to survey with traditional methods.

We deliver accurate land-to-water datasets that support planning, environmental documentation, infrastructure projects, flood and erosion analysis, habitat assessment and long-term monitoring.

Shallow water mapping

Shallow Water Mapping focuses on environments where land and water meet — including rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, shorelines, coastal zones and shallow seabed areas.

Using drone-based bathymetric LiDAR, ROV inspections and environmental sensors, FROST helps document areas that are often difficult to survey with traditional methods.

We deliver accurate land-to-water datasets that support planning, environmental documentation, infrastructure projects, flood and erosion analysis, habitat assessment and long-term monitoring.

Shallow water mapping documents aquatic and land–water transition environments, including:

Using bathymetric green-wavelength LiDAR, combined with aerial imaging and underwater documentation where relevant, we can capture:

Shallow water mapping can be complemented with underwater drone/ROV inspections and environmental sensors. This enables both spatial and environmental conditions to be documented in the same project.

Typical sensor data may include:

This enables combined analysis of:

Typical applications include:

Data quality depends on:

We deliver analysis-ready shallow water mapping datasets, including:

Need reliable data across land and water?

Geospatial solutions powered by software, sensors, and AI technologies

Shallow water mapping

Shallow Water Mapping focuses on environments where land and water meet — including rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, shorelines, coastal zones and shallow seabed areas.

Using drone-based bathymetric LiDAR, ROV inspections and environmental sensors, FROST helps document areas that are often difficult to survey with traditional methods.

We deliver accurate land-to-water datasets that support planning, environmental documentation, infrastructure projects, flood and erosion analysis, habitat assessment and long-term monitoring.

Environmental monitoring and change analysis