http://www.hydro-international.com/ News from www.hydro-international.com. 15 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3761-Nexus_MK_E_Multiplexer.html MacArtney has developed a new electrical multiplexer, the Nexus MK E, that handles online communication using existing copper cables. Handling online information form a large number of underwater instruments often requires fibre optic multiplexers and cables. Using a multiplexer that works on copper cables can be an economic and practical alternative to fibre optic systems, especially when adding multiplexer to existing equipment. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:31:06 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3760-Portable_SideScan_Sonar.html The HMS-1400 Side-Scan Sonar System is a part of falmouth Scientific's new Hegg Marine Solutions Division, specialising in products and services for the hydrographic and marine survey markets. The HMS-1400 is a low-cost, highly portable, single- or dual-frequency side-scan system. Powered by GeoDAS software from Oceanic Imaging Consultants, the HMS-1400 comprises a portable tow fish and waterproof topside case containing the data acquisition, control and power supply. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:12:33 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3759-Teledyne_TSS_and_S_G_Browns_First_Centenary.html The 2010 Oceanology International exhibition at London's ExCeL centre has coincided with the celebration of 100 years of gyrocompass manufacture by S G Brown and was marked by the company with celebrations at the show and elsewhere. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:35:46 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3758-,th_Motion_Tracker_Presented.html At Oceanology International 2010 in London, Xsens' 10,000th Motion Tracker was presented. During a celebration lunch for Xsens 10th anniversary Casper Peeters, CEO of Xsens, handed over an award with the 10,000th Motion Tracker embedded to Simon Partridge, Engineering Director of Sonardyne. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:46:16 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3757-Improved_DGPS_Suite_for_Offshore_Survey.html Fugro is to introduce the first phase of a completely new, Next Generation (NG), suite of precise-positioning software Starfix.NG starting in 2011. This package is building upon the expertise and quality that is provided by the existing software. It will see the implementation of several enhancements that are the result of the company's R&D efforts. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:27:59 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3756-Construction_for_Sheringham_Wind_Farm.html Construction work on the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm site started last week with the arrival of the 164m Nordnes vessel, which will position rocks at selected foundation locations in preparation for the start of the installation of the giant monopile structures next month. Using a precision technique, she will place 2-9" filter rocks in a ‘donut' shape around the site of 77 of the 90 foundation locations to reduce the likelihood of scour and protect the cables when they are installed. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:43:02 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3755-Hydrofest.html The Hydrofest program is designed to provide an understanding of all aspects of Hydrographic Surveying for the offshore oil and gas industry. Topics include surface and underwater positioning, sensors, pipeline and site surveys, construction and inspection. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:20:35 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3753-Geomares_Releases_wwwelectronicchartcom.html Geomares Publishing has released the website www.electronic-chart.com, which aims to support ship owners, operators and mariners in the transition from paper charts to ECDIS navigation. The content of news updates on developments around ECDIS will be soon extended with photo and video material and interactive tools. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3754-Pioneering_DeepSea_Robot_Lost.html A pioneering deep-sea exploration robot, one of the first successful submersible vehicles that was both unmanned and untethered to surface ships, was lost at sea Friday 5th March on a research expedition off the coast of Chile. The fifteen-year old Autonomous Benthic Explorer, affectionately nicknamed ABE, was launched late Thursday night and had reached the seafloor to begin its 222nd research dive when, in the early hours of Friday morning, all contact with the surface vessel abruptly ceased. All efforts to reestablish contact failed. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3752-Crisis_not_Affecting_Oceanography.html Oceanology International has grown, even this year. The exhibition space increased with 5% compared to the last edition, two years ago. And there is optimism in the market, an informal survey by Hydro International amongst vistors and exhibitors shows. ‘The feeling of the market certainly not is in a crisis'. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:01:46 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3751-SeaBat__and__Upgrade_Contract.html At the Oceanology International 2010 exhibition in London, RESON was awarded a contract by Osiris Hydrographic & Geophysical Projects Ltd to deliver a SeaBat 7101 and an upgrade version of SeaBat 7125-SV multibeam sonar systems. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:37:38 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3750-D_Depth_Imaging_Technology_Enhanced.html Spectrum has upgraded its seismic data processing technology with Tsunami's 3D anisotropic Kirchhoff Pre-Stack Depth Migration (PSDM) and 3D Grid Tomography model building software. The new software significantly enhances the company's seismic data processing capabilities in response to the growing demand it is experiencing for advanced 3D pre-stack depth imaging services. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:32:27 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3749-DualAntenna_GNSS_Receiver_Module.html Trimble introduced the new Trimble BD982, a Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver for guidance and control applications. Capable of receiving a wide range of commercially available satellite signals, the BD982 receiver is designed to allow OEMs and system integrators to add centimetre-level positioning and heading to specialised or custom hardware solutions. The announcement was made at the Oceanology International 2010. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:26:53 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3748-Archaeological_Potential_for_Shipwrecks.html The "AMAP2 - Characterising the Potential for Wrecks" project (AMAP2), commissioned in October 2009, is a collaborative project between SeaZone and the University of Southampton (UoS) which seeks to improve the management of the marine historic environment through the interoperability of reference and archaeological data for marine spatial planning. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:41:42 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3747-Marine_Systems_Product_Manager_Appointment.html Peter Stewart has been appointed to Marine Systems Product Manager at Applanix. In this role, Peter will be responsible for product development activities as well as the development and implementation of business strategy for the company's marine products and solutions. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:40:05 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3746-WFS_Technologies_Appoints_Chief_Executive_Officer.html WFS Technologies, supplier of through-water and through-ground electromagnetic communications and sensing systems, announces the appointment of Dr Mark Volanthen as chief executive officer. Having served on the board of WFS as a non-executive director since 2008, today Dr Volanthen joins the team full time to drive the business forwards. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:36:42 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3745-SC_Sonobot.html For the first time, EvoLogics presents Sonobot, an autonomous cartography and surveillance robot with an integrated high precision S2C bionic sonar, differential GPS amongst other sensors. The company also exhibits the advantages the S2C technology provides for underwater acoustic communication and positioning during OI. S2C signals have shown reliability advantages for data transmission and positioning in particular under noisy environments, shallow waters and confined waters. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:33:24 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3744-Triaxis_Next_Wave_Sensor_Update.html The TRIAXYS Directional Wave Sensor was originally developed by AXYS Technologies Inc. in conjunction with the Canadian National Research Council (NRC) in 1998. The TRIAXYS sensor has recently been updated with several new features. The major change in 2010 involves the TRIAXYS sensor being configured by the WatchMan500 controller, the same controller as used in all AXYS monitoring stations. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:26:03 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3743-Recognitions_during_OI.html The opening day of Oceanology International was a big moment for several, often young, professionals in the oceanographic and hydrographic fields. A select number was put to stage receiving their laureates. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:45:27 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3742-Lifetime_Achievement_Award_for_Ian_Gallett.html One of the important awards of this Oceanology International edition is without doubt the Lifetime Achievement Award. SUT Director Ian Gallett takes the 2010 edition of this precious prize. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:39:10 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3741-Matthew_Quartley_Business_Person_Of_The_Year.html The annual Association of Marine Scientific Industries (AMSI) Business Person of the Year Award was today presented to Matthew Quartley, Managing Director of Valeport Limited, by Mr Richard Burt, Chairman of the AMSI Council, at a special award ceremony at Oceanology International 2010 in London's ExCel. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:32:22 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3740-LANDMark_Mobile_Mapping.html Applanix introduced today the latest LANDMark Marine mobile mapping solution, which enables the creation of seamless models of near shore environments by providing a georeferenced point cloud which integrates with equivalent multibeam sonar data. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3739-Hydrographical_Jobs_Portal.html Hydrographical Jobs is "the survey career portal" dedicated to survey professionals in the onshore and offshore survey industry. The creators of this platform aim to provide the easiest way to get in touch with hydrographical professionals and to fill your open job positions. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:47:37 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3738-OceanServer_Awarded_Navy_AUV_Contract.html OceanServer Technology was recently awarded a competitive procurement to deliver two lightweight multibeam sonar equipped AUV's to the US Navy. These AUV's are to be operationally tested and delivered to the Naval Special Warfare (NSW) Command at the Stennis Space Center in September of 2010. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:32:38 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3737-Lowcost_Expeditionready_Multibeam_System.html A new cost-efficient sonar bridging the gap between singlebeam echosounders and high-resolution multibeam sonar systems is the HydroBat, a multibeam system operating at 160kHz and covers a swath of 120°. Rich Lear at RESON explains the significance: "A task that used to take a week with the old singlebeam echosounders, takes only three days with this new multibeam HydroBat." Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:26:04 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3736-Ocean_Energy_Test_Site_Planned_for_New_England.html Nowhere in the world is there more wind, wave or tidal resource located within fifty miles of one of the largest electrical markets in the world. Located right off the shores of Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and Block Island there are several proposals to conduct site assessments to see exactly how much clean energy could be harnessed and transmitted to homes and businesses in the region. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:11:55 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3735-European_Lidar_and_Mobile_Mapping_Conference.html The European LiDAR Mapping Forum [ELMF10], to be held in The Hague from 30th November to 1st December 2010 is a two-day technical conference focussing on the use of airborne, bathymetric and terrestrial Lidar with a particular focus on mobile mapping to support transport, urban modelling and asset management and GIS applications. Alongside there is an associated international exhibition for system and component manufacturers, operators and service companies. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:23:27 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3732-Teaming_Up_to_Provide_Hydroacoustic_Demo_Boat.html Kongsberg Maritime will once again provide visitors to Oceanology International with a live product demonstration facility aboard a fully equipped demo boat, this year in conjunction with survey company MMT. Stationed on the dock just outside of the ExCeL exhibition centre, the 16m survey boat MMT Seabeam is equipped with a typical Kongsberg Maritime survey suite and will be taking to the water regularly for the duration of Oi10. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3733-Submersible_FlowCAM.html Surrey-based Planet Ocean, on behalf of Fluid Imaging Technologies of Yarmouth Maine USA, are pleased to announce the release of the Submersible FlowCAM particle and cell imaging and analysis system which enables scientists and water quality professionals to automatically acquire biological and particle images and data in real-time from remote sensing platforms for continuous, unattended, in-situ monitoring. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3731-AUVs_Searching_for_Sunken_Ferry.html Hydroid, has announced that in August 2009, the Royal New Zealand Navy's Operational Diving Team and a specialist Remote Search Team were flown to Tonga, in an RNZAF Hercules, at short notice to assist with the search for the sunken ferry, Princess Ashika. Their REMUS 100 systems were the primary assets used in the search. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:49:59 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3730-Digital_Signal_Processing_Manager_for_WFS.html Widely regarded as an international expert in wireless communications signal processing, Jon Davies is appointed as digital signal processing manger. He brings a wealth of experience to the WFS team having worked in technologies for subsea command control and communications (C3) for over fifteen years. His specialist expertise are in embedded real time digital signal processing and algorithm development for acoustic communication, acoustic position-fixing and acoustic detection. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:34:26 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3729-Swathe_Services_Distributor_for_Valeport.html Valeport and Swathe Services have combined forces with the announcement of a new distributor agreement with Swathe Services Australia. Swathe Services will provide the full range of Valeport systems including echo sounders, bathymetry packages, tide gauges, wave recorders and sound velocity meters. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:28:21 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3728-Lastminute_Addition_to_OI_Programme.html On Tuesday 9 March Professor Jacqueline McGlade, the Executive Director of the European Environment Agency (EEA), is to speak on the work that the EEA has been doing with Microsoft on the development of ‘Eye on Earth', in a last-minute and highly topical addition to the Oceanology International 2010 conference programme at the world's major gathering of the marine science and ocean technology community (ExCeL London, 9-11 March). Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:17:53 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3727-Falmouth_Scientific_Acquires_Hegg_Marine_Solutions.html Falmouth Scientific has announced the acquisition of Hegg Marine Solutions (HMS). HMS will become a division of FSI specialising in products and services for the geophysical and marine survey markets. HMS, founded by Fred Hegg in 2008, provides a full range of services, including hydro-acoustic system integration, training, and site support. The combined capabilities of the two companies will enable FSI and the new HMS division to provide more complete product and service offerings for coastal and deep-water underwater applications. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:59:39 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3726-SonarWiz.html SonarWiz 5 is a complete data acquisition and survey management system that provides surveyors powerful yet easy to use tools for planning, executing and processing sonar surveys. SonarWiz 5 provides users at all levels with more intuitive features, total control over desktop layout, new reports and new Mosaic export formats. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:53:00 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3725-SeaKing_Hammerhead_DST_Sonar.html Tritech International has launched its new addition to the SeaKing family of imaging scanning sonar products - the Hammerhead scanning sonar. The unit can create higher resolution imagery than comparative mechanical scanning imaging sonars by utilising a large transducer aperture, very fine mechanical step size and proven Digital Sonar Technology. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:48:00 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3724-Optech_at_Oceanology_International.html Optech will be exhibiting its hardware and software at Stand D500 at Oceanology International 2010 in London, England, from 9th to 11th March. Optech will present a spectacular 3D display of seafloor reflectance images, hyperspectral data, and seafloor classification maps. The maps are based on data collected by Optech's SHOALS airborne lidar bathymeter, and processed by Optech's proprietary Rapid Environmental Assessment (REA) software. Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3723-French_Business_Partner_for_Hydro_Group.html Hydro Group has appointed Benoit D'Alancon of French company Wemex Equipments as business partner. Mr D'Alancon will help drive Hydro Group forward in France, identified as major market in the subsea sector. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:36:22 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3722-GIS_in_Mapping_Ocean_Floor.html Ocean Globe from ESRI Press examines bathymetry from its early history through today's use of geographic information systems (GIS) and other technologies to map the ocean floor. With contributions from oceanographers, explorers, and historians, this new book is a valuable resource for those interested in coastal management, seafloor mapping, and marine biology. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:29:14 +0100 http://www.hydro-international.com/news/id3721-Fugro_Presentations_during_OI.html Fugro‘s technology and specialist services will be on display at Oceanology International on Stand E100. To complement their exhibits, there will be a series of on-stand presentations in the specially built presentation area where expert staff will present some of the new technologies. Each presentation is repeated so if you miss one, you have the opportunity to see it on a different day. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:19:49 +0100