Fugro’s Blue Eclipse® USV Makes Commercial Debut
Hydrographic Service.The Blue Eclipse®, the largest USV in Fugro’s fleet, will survey over 675 square kilometers in the North Sea, with water depths ranging from 90 to 250 meters.Equipped with advanced high-resolution, high-density multibeam echo sounders and sub-bottom profiler data acquisition systems, the USV will gather comprehensive datasets, including bathymetry, water column data, acoustic backscatter data and sub-bottom profiler data to understand the seabed’s topography and geology.A key advantage of using the Blue Eclipse® is its significantly reduced fuel consumption
Fugro to Support Norway’s USV Seabed Mapping Program
preservation of Norway’s marine resources.The Blue Eclipse, the largest USV in Fugro’s fleet, will survey over 675 km2 region in the North Sea, with water depths ranging from 90 to 250 meters.Equipped with advanced high-resolution, high-density multibeam echo sounders and sub-bottom data acquisition systems, the USV will gather comprehensive datasets, including bathymetry, water column data, acoustic backscatter data, and sub-bottom profiler data to understand the seabed’s topography and geology.Controlled remotely from Fugro’s remote operations center in Aberdeen, the USV&rsquo
Fugro Wraps UP Seabed Mapping Work Offshore Norway
management and preservation of Norway’s marine resources.This year’s survey covered an extensive 2,823 km² region in the North Sea, with water depths ranging from 146 to 337 metres.Using the Fugro Discovery, equipped with high-resolution multibeam echo sounders and sub-bottom data acquisition systems, the primary goal is to gather seamless datasets, integrating bathymetry, water column, and acoustic backscatter data.Fugro employed cutting-edge sensors and advanced calibration techniques tailored to these challenging conditions. The survey was completed in September and work is now progressing
Acteon Hooks Structural Monitoring Deal for Changhua Offshore Wind Farms
Pulse Structural Monitoring, a brand in marine energy and infrastructure services company Acteon, has been awarded a contract by Ørsted Taiwan to deliver measurement and associated data acquisition systems for the Greater Changhua 2b and 4 offshore wind farms.The scope of the contract includes design, engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning of measurement and associated data acquisition systems.The wind farms, which are 35 and 60 km off the Changhua coast of Taiwan, will have the capacity to generate 920 MW of power and are due to be completed by the end of 2025.Pulse is part
OSIL Dredge Monitoring Buoy Network for Van Oord
Ocean Scientific International Limited (OSIL) supplied a network of 1.2m data buoys to offshore construction company Van Oord to monitor turbidity and dissolved oxygen levels in the location of dredging operations. A total of nine data acquisition systems have been produced for Van Oord, and the fully integrated multi-discipline data buoy networks will support dredging operations by providing continuous real-time information about the dredge plume and surrounding environmental conditions.The buoys are equipped with water quality sondes provided from Van Oord’s existing equipment pool, and relay
NOAA Awards 5-yr Hydrographic Gig to Fugro
will manage all work associated with the new IDIQ award from its Houston-based Hydrography Centre of Excellence in the Americas. Fugro established the center in 2017 to address the region’s growing need for hydrographic services.Since then, the center has successfully developed innovative data acquisition systems, which are complemented by remote processing and large data transfer capabilities. These technologies allow Fugro to deliver high quality hydrographic services with increased safety and efficiency, and a significantly reduced carbon footprint.Two new technologies available to NOAA for upcoming
The Decommissioning, Marine Life Connection
industry will help by providing data, but also access to facilities for data collection, i.e. marine life surveys, sampling and monitoring, access to survey vessels and ROVs for monitoring, and the deployment and collection of data acquisition tools.The technology program will seek out low-cost data acquisition systems and other technologies to enhance the data initiative.Richard Heard, Insite Program director, told the Offshore Decommissioning Conference in St Andrews, late 2018: “This is about providing science for all stakeholders to try and understand what’s going on in the eco-system,
PGS Sells OptoSeis to Geospace Technologies
the acquisition of the OptoSeis business."The OptoSeis fiber optic technology has been deployed by PGS in a marine permanent reservoir monitoring system in the Jubarte field located offshore Brazil and has also been demonstrated as a viable technology for large scale cabled land seismic data acquisition systems
Atlantic Canada Profiles: CNA's Wave Energy Center
testing of anticorrosive and antifouling marine coatings – all set in the harsh North Atlantic waters off Newfoundland’s southeast coast. The facility, which is housed in a former fish plant in the community of Lord’s Cove, has grown to include a variety of automated data acquisition systems including a weather station, Doppler and capacitive wave measurements, an inspection class ROV, and both land- and sea-based multichannel systems capable of recording outputs from a wide array of instruments. These abilities, coupled with six fully permitted mooring sites
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