Sourcing Seismic with Subsea Swarms
. It’s exciting technology. it’s substantially cheaper than traditional technology and a lot less carbon emissions, which is important now.”Illingworth has a background in developing start-up technology companies. Born in the UK, he moved to Australia where he founded and sold computer software firm SmartTrack in the early 2000s. Illingworth went on to work in telecommunications, satellite tracking and then petrophysical data evaluation before co-founding Blue Ocean Monitoring, a Perth, Australia-based start-up, in 2014, with co-founder and chief technology officer Ben Hollings, whose
Academia’s Climate Change Challenge is Far from Academic
, able to register colors invisible to the human eye. Throughout its flight, a photo is taken every two seconds. Thanks to rubber maps laid out in the water to relate the images to real features on the ground, the photos are stitched together into 2D or 3D models. The images are then run through computer software training to identify the types of seaweed.In the kelp forests of Antarctica’s Ross Sea, underwater ROVs are playing a role in ecosystem health assessment, too. The BoxFish ROV in question can survey Antarctic marine life more than 100 meters below the surface with its sensors and high-definiti
Global Reef Expedition: Mission to Tonga
the point intercept surveys. In this sampling technique, a scientific diver used a 1 m × 1 m quadrat, flipping it over a total of 10 times per transect to capture detailed photographs of a full 1 × 10 m photo transect. Analyzing photos of the underwater landscape required using computer software called Coral Point Count with Excel Extensions (CPCe), which was developed by our partners at Nova Southeastern University’s National Coral Reef Institute (NCRI). The images were imported into the software, where 50 random points were overlaid on each photograph. A scientist then defined
Wallace Joins Rovco as CTO
information from traditional video survey data. As CTO, he will enhance Rovco’s underwater photogrammetric 3D modeling capabilities utilizing the latest simultaneous location and mapping (SLAM) techniques for complex underwater inspections. Wallace joins Rovco from SCISYS, a computer software and services company, where he was an autonomy and robotics analyst, focused on developing innovative robotic navigation and scene understanding technology for the U.K. and European Space Agencies. Prior to this he was a research associate at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, where his work
Tech File: Blue Robotics BlueROV2
is no toy, the components are very well made and the ROV’s capabilities rival more well-known products which cost many times more. It is a kit and some skills are required to complete it. But if you are able to use a few simple hand tools, follow written instructions and install and configure computer software, you have all the skills required to build this kit. I would say the greatest challenges for the builder are the topside controller and dealing with the software/firmware, but even these tasks are not very difficult. And building the kit yields an additional benefit, that when it comes time
Injecting 45 Years of New Life
ever of its type - was carried out beneath the waves. Subsea, air and saturation divers first marked out the structure, using 3,000 magnetic, coded markers, and then some 20,000 high-definition, overlapping photographs were taken over a 70-day campaign. The photographs were then converted, using computer software, into an exact geometric 3D model, using the information from the markers, from which the K-nodes and conductor level guide could be designed. Next, inspection work, surface cleaning and preparation work had to be done, including underwater grit-blasting and measuring member wall thickness
Metron Get Navy R&D LDUUV Contract
Warfare Systems Center Pacific, San Diego, Calif., is the contracting activity. Metron is a scientific consulting company dedicated to solving challenging problems in national defense through the development and application of advanced mathematical methods. Problem solutions are realized in computer software with graphical interfaces that allow a user to understand and act on the results without having to comprehend the intricacies of the models themselves.
February 2024
