Ocean Infinity has awarded 4D Nav the contract for InfinityView, mission planning and monitoring software for its multiple autonomous vehicle systems. The software will optimise the mission planning for all autonomous...

Ocean Infinity has purchased two more autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) from Kongsberg Maritime. This will increase Ocean Infinity’s fleet of HUGIN 6000 AUVs from six to eight vehicles. The AUVs will...

Now that the spotlights are on unmanned vehicles for various tasks in subsea survey, inspection and maintenance, it’s interesting to see how two businesses are looking at the technology. In...

In June 2016, the IHO/IOC GEBCO Guiding Committee and the Nippon Foundation hosted F-FOFM, the Forum for Future Ocean Floor Mapping in Monaco. Over three days, some 170 ocean mapping...

Alongside the autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) available for mine countermeasures (MCM), the Kongsberg stand (C40) at Underwater Defence Technology (UDT 2017) in Bremen, Germany, will host Kongsberg Maritime’s compact acoustics...

Teledyne RD Instruments (TRDI) has launched its ultra-compact 600kHz Pathfinder doppler velocity log (DVL). The Pathfinder provides high-precision onboard navigation for subsea and surface vehicles in a small footprint for...

A series of ten or more high-level presentations by leading experts on a wide range of issues will be featured at the 59th Marine Measurement Forum (MMF), to be staged...

The evolution of hydrographic surveying technology has been moving at a very fast pace over the last decade. The introduction of unmanned systems such as autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), unmanned...

Hydrography is important to visualise the water floor. This can be done in various ways, from using a sounding stick to a remotely controlled singlebeam echosounder or a survey vessel...

The SEAFLOOR EchoBoat USV is on the job for the California Department of Water Resources (CADWR) and R.E.Y. Engineers surveying the fragile delta region levee system. The EchoBoat is Seafloor’s...