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BELLOWS AIR FORCE STATION, Hawaii – The Royal Australian Navy Deployable Geospatial Survey Team is attached to 2nd Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment Landing Force during Exercise Rim of the Pacific 2022. They have worked alongside the United States Navy Fleet Survey Team to survey the ocean floor, determining the slope of the surf zone and the profile of the beach. They use a Rover Real Time Kinematic Global Navigation Satellite System that works similar to a GPS to conduct these activities. The tool is made up of a base station receiver on land and a rover receiver. Boat survey data is collected by a fly away survey kit on a general purpose inflatable boat. (Story by Royal Australian Air Force Flying Officer Lily Lancaster)
Working on the beaches of Hawaii is the Deployable Geospatial Survey Team, collecting information to help Commanders make important decisions. Together with the United States Navy Fleet Survey Team, they are surveying the beach and surf in preparation for Australian Army and United States Marine Corps troops to helo-cast, inserting into the water from an aircraft, later in the week.
On the world’s largest maritime exercise Rim of the Pacific, what does a Hydrographer actually do?
“We are here on RIMPAC to support the amphibious operations of the ships in the area,” Lieutenant Daniel Todd, the Officer in Charge of the Deployable Geospatial Survey Team, said. “We collect environmental data to provide information to the whole intelligence picture and that supports the decision making of the Commander out on the ground, so he knows what he's getting into before he actually gets there.”
Together, the American and Australian team sent out a general-purpose inflatable boat inflatable craft, fitted with a multi-beam echo sounder that measures the depth of a drop zone area. Their job is an important one, determining if a beach is safe for helicopters to drop personnel or to deploy vessels.
United States Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Jerrell Hamilton has found working with the Australian Navy team very informative.
“We realized that we have a lot of the same capabilities and limitations when it comes to the systems we use,” Petty Officer 3rd Class Jerrell Hamilton said. “To maintain a really good relationship between countries it is important to work together. Especially in case we have to do any other joint services with each other in the future, whether it be for training or for real world scenarios.”
Having surveyed the beach and determined the slope of surf zone, the teams are both confident their colleagues will be in a safe environment for water operations in the future.
Twenty-six nations, 38 ships, three submarines, more than 170 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 29 to Aug. 4 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world’s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world’s oceans. RIMPAC 2022 is the 28th exercise in the series that began in 1971.
| Date Taken: | 07.15.2022 |
| Date Posted: | 07.22.2022 17:17 |
| Story ID: | 425457 |
| Location: | BELLOWS AIR FORCE STATION, HAWAII, US |
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