USACE Survey & Mapping Employees Awarded for USV Innovation
coming out of the water and affecting the data. To overcome this, within the size requirements of the vessel, a retractable arm for sonar was constructed and attached to the outside of AMY to accurately collect data.While Surveyor Amy was created to meet requirements and better serve customers, the end product has created new possibilities about how survey work is performed. The goal for this technology is to become a force multiplier ─ increasing versatility and efficiency while working safely
The Information Age is Transforming Fishing Worldwide
in much of the world.This approach has led to overfishing, stock depletions, habitat destruction, the senseless killing of unwanted by-catch and wastage of as much as 30% to 40% of landed fish. Industrial fishing has devastated artisanal pre-industrial fleets in Asia, Africa and the the Pacific.The end product is largely a commodity that travels around the world like a manufactured part or digital currency, rather than fresh domestic produce from the sea. An average fish travels 5,000 miles before reaching a plate, according to sustainable-fishing advocates. Some is frozen, shipped to Asia for processing
Subsea Europe Services Names Operations Manager Offshore
;While Technology development and integration enable easier to use, more automated technology, professional marine surveyors like Jorge can provide tangible added value by ensuring that the full capabilities of the diverse equipment we supply is leveraged to streamline survey performance and improve end-product quality.&rdquo
Robotics Community Gains Access to Xsens IMUs
, while Clearpath Robotics is a recognized authority on ROS technology, and its robot platforms are all built on ROS.MTi-series products are also all supported by the MT Software Suite, a development and configuration tool which enables users to quickly integrate an IMU into robots or other types of end product.Photo: Xsen
Untethered Vehicle Tech Continues to Advance Autonomy
tracking. They recently released a paper describing a new feature detection algorithm that outperforms current algorithms in the market, which will be used in their software tools. The software tools can generate a three-dimensional mesh from any point cloud or sonar, and from analyzed video data. The end product is a “3D mesh” with the “full resolution of the image” even though the underlying point-cloud has been reduced.EIVA’s Software Output Showing sonar and video data “mesh” (Credit: EIVA)Another presentation of novel ideas came from Terradepth’s Ken
Hydroid Appraised at CMMI V2.0 Maturity Level 3
company performance. The level 3 appraisal indicates that Hydroid is performing at a “defined” level. At this level, company processes are well characterized and understood, and are described in standards, procedures, tools and methods. It also means that Hydroid’s set of end-to-end product development processes, which is the basis for maturity level 3, is established and improved over time
Swathe Services Named HYPACK Dealer for UK, Ireland
HYPACK hydrographic survey software to customers purchasing R2Sonic packages and also to anyone operating within the offshore industry. The HYPACK 2016 software system provides surveyors with all of the tools required to design surveys, process data, reduce it and generate a high quality end product. It can be used for a wide range of tasks, from collecting hydrographic survey data or environmental data to simply positioning a vessel in an engineering project. The software is suited for use on both large and small vessels. Existing customers include those on vessels
Two New Products Launched from CARIS
water column data processing, includes improvements to the SIPS processing engine for side scan sonar data. The new SIPS engine has an improved user interface that allows the user to immediately see the enhancements that are done to the side scan image, CARIS said. The processing time of the final end product, the side scan mosaic, is reduced with the new SIPS engine. The produced mosaic can be draped on top of bathymetry in state of the art 3D visualization, or be used in other CARIS Ping-to-Chart software such as Bathy DataBASE and BASE Editor for further processing. Limits and Boundaries Module
Despite Protests Gazprom Starts Arctic Oil Production
of 2014, and it is planned to produce no less than 300 thousand tons of oil throughout the year. The Prirazlomnaya offshore ice-resistant stationary platform secures every process operation in the field – drilling for oil, its production and storage, end product processing and offloading. Gazprom says it the first time in the world that hydrocarbons in the Arctic shelf will be produced by a stationary platform. Prirazlomnaya, explains Gazprom, was constructed in Russia and is intended for operation under extreme environmental
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