Marport Announces Next Generation Synthetic Aperture Sonar
Andrew Safer
April 27, 2011
On April 25, Marport Deep Sea Technologies Inc. of St. John’s announced AquaPix®, a new interferometric Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) developed for mine countermeasures, hydrography, seabed survey and other underwater imaging markets. AquaPix® is based on Marport’s Software Defined Sonar®, an underwater acoustics technology platform that enables advanced underwater sensing, communications and imaging products. The software-centric architecture enables digital signal processing to be executed in multiple FPGA cores allowing dynamic reconfiguration and massively parallel processing performance. The sonar is frequency agile from 200 – 400 kHz and offers range-independent resolution of 2.5cm by 2.5cm with co-registered 3D bathymetry.