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Sonardyne’s Vigilant sonar to provide critical hazard avoidance for new diver delivery system

Underwater obstacle avoidance technology from maritime defence and security specialist Sonardyne International Ltd. has been chosen for a new design diver delivery unit (DDU) being built by SubSea Craft. Sonardyne’s Vigilant forward looking sonar (FLS) will provide a critical hazard avoidance capability for the crew and embarked divers of the VICTA Class DDU when navigating …

Subsea asset monitoring – intelligence delivered

Author: Stephen Auld, Global Business Manager, Subsea Asset Monitoring As I’ve set out in the previous two blogs (Wireless Intelligence Made Easy and 21st Century Data Collection) in this three-part series, when you want to understand the fatigue life or integrity of your subsea systems you need two main elements. One is a way to accurately …

Subsea asset monitoring – 21st century data collection

Author: Stephen Auld, Global Business Manager, Subsea Asset Monitoring In my last blog, the first in a three-part series, I looked at how our 6G enabled SMART and AMT acoustic hardware can provide the information you need to understand both high and low frequency movement of your subsea assets’ integrity and fatigue life. These sensors …

Subsea pipeline monitoring – wireless intelligence made easy

Author: Stephen Auld, Global Business Manager, Subsea Asset MonitoringPart 2Part 3 Globally, the installed base of subsea production pipelines and flowlines continues to grow. As well as increasing in number they’re being installed in harder to reach places, in deeper waters, in harsher conditions and with more challenging fluids and gases passing through them. Whether …

Sonardyne positioning systems chosen for Brazilian geoscience research vessels

Brazilian geoscience services company OceanPact Geociências has chosen deep water positioning technology from Sonardyne Brasil Ltda. to support its geophysical, geotechnical and environmental research operations across the region. Ranger 2 Ultra-Short Baseline (USBL) systems have been installed on board OceanPact’s research vessel Seward Johnson and RSV Austral Abrolhos to precisely track the location of underwater …

Monitoring the restless earth – plate tectonic motion

In his second blog on measuring the restless earth, Geraint West, Global Business Manager for Ocean Science, explained how Sonardyne technology is being used to measure underwater landslides down the sides of Mount Etna. In this, his third blog, in a three-part series, he explains how an emerging technique called GPS-Acoustic (GPS-A) is having a …

Sonardyne tests navigation systems for autonomous surface vehicles for UK MOD

Marine robotics company, Sonardyne International Ltd. has demonstrated technologies that will aid autonomous vehicle operations in challenging environments under a project funded by the UK’s national Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA). Working with a 12 m-long SEA-KIT X class unmanned surface vehicle (USV), Sonardyne tested and validated sensors already used by unmanned underwater vehicles for …

A SLAM dunk for subsea survey

To do real-time SLAM, a new set of algorithms was developed using raw ranges from Compatt 6+ transponders in the SPRINT INS, which is in turn managed by Fusion 2, all in real-time. All you need is a ROVNav 6+ on your ROV, a SPRINT-Nav (or SPRINT INS and a DVL), and one Compatt 6+ …

Sonardyne Fusion 2 software update adds new capabilities for offshore survey and construction

Underwater positioning specialist Sonardyne International Ltd. has increased the capabilities of its Fusion 2 software package to enable surveyors and construction personnel to do even more, both on and offshore, with their existing hardware. This latest release of Fusion 2 unlocks new benefits, including a simplified surface box-in app and the ability to perform wireless …

Monitoring the restless earth – landslides on mount Etna

In his first blog on monitoring the restless earth, Geraint West, Global Business Manager for Ocean Science, explained how scientists are able to measure underwater ‘avalanches’, or oceanic turbidity currents using our Autonomous Monitoring Transponders (AMTs). In this second blog, of a three-part series, he explains how the same versatile instruments are being used to …