GEP Innovation Awards Prize for Ixsea's SHADOWS

IXSEA won first prize in the prestigious French offshore oil and gas industry's innovation awards in Paris on 19 October. The GEP Prix de l'Innovation 2006 SME/SMI, which recognises technological advancement in the industry as well as financial returns from the innovation, awarded this first prize to IXSEA for its SHADOWS. This is the first commercially available off-the-shelf Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) which offers image quality in real-time with no gap at nadir, thus boosting productivity. SHADOWS doubles the resolution while reducing survey costs by half. The system is a solution for all sidescan survey applications, including: cable route, offshore mining, pre-dredging survey, small objects search on the seabed and shipwreck search and salvage.