Dave Wells in Malaysia

Photos: Dave Wells, 7 August 1998

Ferryboat rented for fieldwork. Normally this vessel carries passengers from Malaysia to the nearby Indonesian island of Bintan. Singapore's Changi airport is on the horizon.

Fundamental GPS control point established on 4 June 1998 by joint Malaysian/Singaporean geodetic survey team.

Establishing a DGPS base station over control point JKDRM for hydrographic track control. Instructors Ken McMillan from McQuest Marine Sciences Limited and Dave Wells from UNB are in the background.

Real time hydrographic data collection on board the rented ferryboat. Raytheon 719C echosounder with Odom digitrace digitizer feeds into Trimble Hydro software on the laptop. The helmsman's display controlled track lines.

UTM Hydro 1 1998 class, on completion of a successful survey exercise.

Processing the day's data back at the hotel, using Trimble Hydro software.

Celebrating the completion of the survey work Malaysian style. UTM staff member Rusli Othman shares some spicy food with Dave Wells.