The challenge
Every berth maintenance decision at the Port of Halvorsen waited on a survey, and every survey waited on a boat, a crew, and a manual processing queue. Turnaround from request to usable deliverable averaged five weeks — long enough that conditions had sometimes changed before the data arrived.
The approach
GeoGarmeux replaced routine boat-based capture with scheduled drone photogrammetry flights over berths and shallow channel margins, keeping vessel surveys for deep water only. An automated pipeline processes each flight into point clouds, surface models, and change maps that publish directly to the port's GeoGarmeux Atlas workspace.
The results
- 60% faster survey turnaround, from five weeks to under two
- 12 berths on a standing biweekly capture schedule
- Zero manual processing steps between flight and published deliverable
“Engineering used to plan around the survey queue. Now the current surface model is just there when they open the map.”