• Managed  by the Geological Survey of Ireland (GSI) with the Marine Institute as a strategic partner.

• Project area  encompasses the majority of Ireland’s  designated waters.

• Total allocation, over a seven year period of almost €32m

• Surveying began in July 2000

• LADS provides high speed - low cost hydrographic survey

• LADS Competitive advantage: 33% to 50% of the cost of survey by ships and 10 to 100 times faster.

• 900 sounding per second in a 5m x 5m grid

• 70 metre depth capability

• Up to 7 hours on task

• Digital Bathymetry in following formats.- ASCII, Caris export, 3D DXF

• Fair Sheets as Plot files.

• GSI Paper Charts

• Fledermaus Iview and Scene file