Highland Geo Solutions: Mapping Specialists

A global company, Highland Geo Solutions (HGS) thrives on diversity. With low overhead and an efficient team of engineers, surveyors, geologists and software experts, HGS is always geared to go wherever it’s needed.

Archaeological dive off the coast of Albania in 2008.

Another Greek Amphora discovery, assisted by high quality multibeam mapping. We are constantly looking for new ways to collect and process data to push the ability to identify potential targets.

(Courtesy RPM Nautical Foundation)

ROV image of torpedo tube from a German World War 2 E-Boat. This wreck was investigated after being identified in the multibeam data from 2006 operations in Malta.

(courtesy RPM Nautical Foundation)

Using cutting edge tools, Highland Geo Solutions assists RPM Nautical Foundation in the planning, collection, processing and presentation of their marine mapping data. We have been involved since 2006, working in Albania, Greece, Montenegro, Sicily, and Turkey.

Combined Mediterranean Topography and Bathymetry

3D Rendering of a large area of the Mediterranean and surround land masses.

Ottoman wreck discovered off the coast of Turkey 2006.

(Courtesy RPM Nautical Foundation)

Albanian bathymetry collect in 2007 and 2008 merged seamlessly to create seafloor map. Bathymetric data used to identify potential archaeological artefacts on the seabed. (courtesy RPM Nautical Foundation).

Wreck of the Italian 8,000-ton Italian freighter Rosandra, which was hit by a British submarine on June 14, 1943

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Wreck of the British Submarine HMS Stubborn imaged using backscatter data from Kongsberg EM3002D.

Greek Amphora found in 2008 is retrieved by ROV. Multibeam sonar data is used to identify potential targets on the seafloor. The data is also used to create 3D maps of the seafloor to help navigate the ROV and zero in on the artefacts.

Believed to be building stones scavanged from a Greek temple by Romann colonists now rest in the shallows off the Crotone coast. This image collected by a Reson 8125 shows what appears to be hand cut limestone.

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Feature Project

Ancient Greek Ruins

When the RPM Nautical Foundation based in Key West, Florida set out to explore the coast of post-communist Albania to compile an underwater cultural heritage map, Highland Geo Solutions was there.