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Subsea Europe Services, FLANQ Appointed as a Distributor of Voxometer Survey System Across Mainland Europe

, and government sectors, ensuring the Voxometer’s capabilities are accessible across both civil and strategic applications. Subsea Europe Services’ appointment as a distributor for the Voxometer in mainland Europe builds upon a longstanding relationship with R3Vox's sister company, R2Sonic

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Echoexplore 4 aims to Simplify Hydroacoustic Data Management

support: Echoexplore 4 is equipped to read a significantly expanded range of files (compared to earlier releases). Scan, sort and catalog data formats from more than 75 echosounder and sonar models from ASL Environmental, Blueprint Subsea, BlueView, Furuno, Kongsberg Discovery, Navico, Norbit, Nortek, R2Sonic, Reson, Simrad, Sonic, Sound Metrics, WASSP, and more - matching Echoview’s complete range of supported data formats.Expanded licensing: Introducing new software license activation and management options.File indexing: Echoexplore 4 accelerates data access with enhanced file indexing capabilities

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VIDEO: EIVA Launches ViperFish Survey ROTV for Hard-to-reach Areas

UXO survey sensor platform, ScanFish. This means that many of ViperFish’s components are proven with thousands of hours documented in the field. In addition, the 3D towed platform is integrated with several high-quality sensor options: Wavefront Solstice MAS, EdgeTech 2205 SSS, R2Sonic MBES, OFG Hypermags Sonardyne SPRINT-Nav Mini and more," EIVA says

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Seabed Power: Waves Used to Power Up Sabertooth Autonomous Vehicle

intruder activity.Operating the Sabertooth will demonstrate that subsea residence enables a sustained presence to secure underwater port infrastructure and its ability to support efforts to protect shipping against underwater explosive devices.For the trials, the Sabertooth will be equipped with an R2Sonic Sonic 2024 multibeam echosounder, 2G Robotics ULS-500 PRO Laser Scanner and camera, and the ASL AZFP 70,120 & 200 kHz Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler.The 3000m rated Saab Seaeye Sabertooth is a roaming and hovering system that can operate in both fully autonomous (AUV) and tethered (ROV)

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C-Power to Demo Sabertooth AUV with SeaRAY Autonomous Offshore Power System

at the Navy’s Wave Energy Testing Site in Hawaii.  From shore, operator Hibbard Inshore will remotely program and monitor the Saab Sabertooth AUV during what is reported to be the first ever instance of an in situ renewable energy system supporting a subsea resident vehicle. Equipped with the R2Sonic Sonic 2024 multibeam echosounder, the untethered Sabertooth will patrol the surrounding area to collect sonar imagery of the sea floor and underwater infrastructure.  After each mission, that imagery will be communicated back to shore and the Sabertooth recharged via the SeaRAY AOPS.&ldquo

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Ultrabeam, USS team up to deliver Autonomous Pipeline Survey

to see early data capture and quality provide assurance of equal standards to previous surveys, such that the assets could be returned a clean bill of health."The challenges faced by these route surveys were solved by using an Accession Class USV built by USS. This 3.5m USV was fitted out with an R2SONIC 2024 high resolution multi-beam sonar, SBG Ekinox Navsight Inertial Navigation System and sound velocity sensors from Valeport.  The data was acquired in QINSy which was also used as the autopilot for the autonomous line running.  Two pipeline surveys were conducted along the Larne and

USS Delivers Unmanned Surface Vessel to Tetra Tech

vessel for waypoint line running.USS said the delivery to Tetra Tech included an Inception Class MKII Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) with a bespoke cooling system and two additional survey instrumentation pods for harbor survey projects. The first payload pod has been fitted out with an R2SONIC 2020, SBG Ekinox-D, Valeport SVS and Hypack Hysweep software for undertaking high-resolution multi-beam data acquisition, USS said.A second pod will be fitted with an EdgeTech side-scan sonar and the third with a single-beam echo-sounder, both for subsequent operation in the USA. Director of

Figure 1 illustrates an example of an inter-tidal area represented as a mesh in Fledermaus.

Using High Res 3D Meshes for improved Shape Reconstuction of Marine Survey Data

the data. The QPS suite of tools can support a workflow focused on creating the highest quality 3d data possible. For example, using the new 3D point filter in Qimera 2.2 with the latest mesh technology in Fledermaus 8.2, is a powerful combination. Applying these tools to a data set collected with an R2Sonic Sonic 2024 multibeam operated in UHR (700kHZ) mode, provides a great example of what can be achieved, as shown in Figure 7. In future versions the technology and capabilities for 3D meshes will only improve as more tools are developed to integrate this new data type into various workflows.Figure

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Hybrid AUV Completes Depth of Burial Survey for Offshore Wind Farm

.  The WTG’s are connected by 161 inter array cables which total circa 147km in length. The worksite is known for high subsea currents, so any solution had to cope with current up to 2kts.Modus mobilized its HAUV-2 system, equipped with Optimal Ranging Orion Cable Tracking System and dual head R2Sonic 2024 Multibeam Echosounder, on the chartered DP2 vessel “Noordhoek Pathfinder”.  The inherent power and stability of HAUV-2 provides unrivalled high current workability and the system operated throughout the local tidal cycle.  Despite the high currents experienced, survey

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