Search and Classify Sonar Imagery for Bluefin AUV

Bluefin Robotics, USA, has successfully integrated the Solstice - search and classify sidescan sonar with integrated swath bathymetry sonar - into the Bluefin-12 AUV. The company collaborated with Sonardyne International, UK, to make the integration and demonstration possible in just one month. The results from payload testing offer imagery of higher quality than imagery that is currently available from conventional sonar.

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According to Will O'Halloran, marine operations manager at Bluefin Robotics, the imagery is some of the best he has seen in his 10 years of operating AUVs and reviewing datasets. He considers the Solstice sonar as a payload option for clients who want exceptional imagery from low-logistics, rapidly deployable AUVs.

Image: 3D bathymetric imagery of a pipeline collected with a Bluefin-12 / Solstice. (Image courtesy: Sonardyne).