The Swiss pipelay specialist Allseas has placed a major order with Sonardyne for the supply of its Wideband deepwater Long BaseLine acoustic positioning technology. The order includes two Lodestar AHRS...

LinkQuest Inc. is a leading manufacturer of precision acoustic instruments for offshore oil exploration, construction, drilling, survey, environmental study, discharge measurement and other oceanographic and inland water resource management applications....

Sonardyne International has long been a familiar name to anyone involved in sub-sea positioning technology, whether in offshore oil exploration, construction, drilling or any of the countless oceanographic applications for...

Currently, the precision of sub-sea global positioning (of UUV and ROV) in deep water is considered to be lagging behind the precision and functionality of GPS-based surface positioning offshore. This...

There are fewer large projects on the drawing board for the present or very near future than the surveying industry would wish. But try to see it positively, in line...

The unique seabed topography of oil & gas field 'Ormen Lange', in the North Sea near Norway makes it very difficult to design pipeline routes and associated structures in compliance...

Survey, geotechnics and Remotely Operated underwater Vehicle (ROV) operations are all individually very interesting subjects as far as their exponents are concerned. But this combination, with the added dimension of...

What started out as a small niche company specialising in hydrographic multi-beam surveys has really taken flight since 1992. C&C Technologies has been led in many other directions than multi-beam...

An USBL underwater positioning system is the ideal solution for dam survey by ROV, providing easy and fast set-up and accurate 3D measurement for traceability, but not all USBL systems...

Why has a new positioning system been designed? What are the requirements? What are the drawbacks of traditional solutions? Why are a new concept and system architecture necessary? What applications...