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....

Falmouth Scientific, Inc (FSI) has supplied a solar-powered Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (SAUV) to the University of Tokyo for use in monitoring tectonic plate movement. The SAUV is a compact, man-portable...

Swathe Services was recently commissioned by Falmouth Divers to assist on a 4km submarine power cable installation to a remote island community on behalf of one of their clients in...

When accelerometer-based heave units were developed, there were limited options for verifying their performance at sea with a recognised standard. With real-time kinematic (RTK) global positioning system (GPS) devices, surveyors...

High-resolution bathymetry and water quality surveys of shallow shelf and inland water bodies are an increasingly necessary part of environmental management with climate change pressures. This paper describes a new...

In the last few decades, substantial efforts have been made to improve and facilitate the way hydrographic data is obtained. One technology is the EdgeTech 4600, an interferometric phase difference...

Quality control of survey data is an integral part of any hydrographic survey or inspection operation, but the focus is too often concentrated on the wrong sensors, the carrying out...

Coastline Surveys Ltd (UK) has completed three high-resolution multibeam hydrographic surveys in the Southern North Sea, using the latest-generation R2SONIC 2024 combined with an iXBlue Octans MKIII Gyro / MRU...

At Oceanology International 2012, two Motion Reference Units from Kongsberg Maritime’s position reference specialist division, Kongsberg Seatex, Norway, have been showcased. The MRU 3 is a completely new model within...

At the beginning of the 2013 pipeline inspection season, client requirements led to Fugro Survey Limited needing to move fast to acquire a new remotely operated towed vehicle (ROTV). MacArtney...