Whorton Named President of Teledyne Optech
Dr. Mark Whorton has assumed the role of President of the U.S. organization Teledyne Optech, Inc., the company announced. In this role, Dr. Whorton will oversee U.S. operations and apply his expertise to the development of the Optech Coastal Zone Mapping and Imaging Lidar (CZMIL) and our line of digital aerial cameras. Dr. Whorton has served Teledyne Brown Engineering (TBE) as Chief Technology Officer since October 2014 and previously as Director, Commercial Earth Imaging. He is the Principal Investigator for the Multiple User System for Earth Sensing (MUSES) instrument pointing
Optech to Present at OI China
Optech announced that it will attend the Oceanology International China 2014 conference in Shanghai, September 3-5, where Dr. Joong Yong Park will discuss coastal mapping trends and how new advanced data fusion techniques using data from a high-power green lidar and a hyperspectral sensor are providing unprecedented coastal environment information. Optech will also be exhibiting with sister Teledyne Marine companies in booth B50, where Dr. Park, Optech, Inc. President Max Elbaz, and others will be available to answer questions about the CZMIL system, including how organizations can benefit from the
Optech Debuts Turbid Water Module for CZMIL
Optech, a developer, manufacturer and support provider of high-accuracy lidar 3D survey systems and productivity-enhancing workflow software, announced the release of the HydroFusion Turbid Water Module, a powerful new tool that enables the Optech CZMIL Coastal Zone Mapping and Imaging Lidar (CZMIL) to collect bathymetry data in water conditions that were previously impossible to capture. Based on Optech’s extensive experience in lidar bathymetry waveform analysis, the Turbid Water Module is an addition to the Optech CZMIL HydroFusion workflow specifically designed to detect and extract
December 2025
