This month we report on the maiden cruise of the ROVLATIS that took place at the beginning of March 2009 aboard the R/V Celtic Explorer. Its designers – the Mobile...

The Mobile & Marine Robotics Research Centre describe their motivation for building their own Smart ROV based on previous survey experience and the preparations they are now undertaking to integrate...

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...

Recent development of a 3-dimensional precise positioning technique by Kinematic GPS (KGPS) makes it possible to realise accurate vertical positioning to several centimetres, even in the sea. But observed vertical...

iXSea launched a dedicated subsea Inertial Navigation System (INS), PHINS 6000. PHINS 6000 is a subsea application for iXSea’s standard setting PHINS. It can provide subsea vessels with position (X,...

On 12 August 2002 IXSEA and OCEANO Technologies successfully completed their merger previously announced in March 2002, revolutionising the landscape of the positioning industry. With 100 staff and over 25...

For nearly two years the sales team at VT TSS had been receiving orders for a combined installation of its Meridian gyro-compass and its Dynamic Motion Sensor (DMS). It was,...