![]() ![]() Its clients include major military and commercial organizations, both U.S. SeaRobotics Corporation, headquartered in Stuart, Florida, specializes in small, smart vessels that are remotely or autonomously operated. “The USV will be used extensively to improve bathymetric, hydrographic and nautical data throughout Canada for waterways, estuaries and coastal bathymetric surveys,” further explained Geoff Douglass, USV development manager at SeaRobotics. The 2.5 meter USV is one of the smallest systems capable of practical, general purpose MBES deployment,” stated Don Darling, president of SeaRobotics Corporation. “We are pleased to be supporting CHS in their deployment of state-of-the-art USV technology. The USVs were delivered with a fully integrated R2Sonic multi-beam echo sounder (MBES), associated motion reference unit and dual antenna RTK GPS system, as well as a surface sound velocity probe and a cast winch deploying a CTD-all tightly integrated with HYPACK software. ![]() These systems leverage SeaRobotics’ extensive expertise and history delivering USVs for high-precision bathymetric surveys, water quality analysis, hydrographic surveys, shallow water, force multiplier and many other applications. A profile of high-productivity, cost-reducing activities is being developed for both traditional survey tasks and survey tasks in previously denied, and currently unsurveyed, areas. CHS has completed the first year of operation and the analysis of the efficiency and cost effectiveness of USV usage. The SeaRobotics USVs are being deployed across Canada supported by regional training performed by SeaRobotics. These USVs, built by SeaRobotics, are complete hydrographic systems including multibeam echo sounders, support sensors, cast winches, deployment carts and road trailers. SeaRobotics Corporation (SeaRobotics) today announced the delivery of two additional 2.5 meter autonomous unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) to the Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS), a part of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, bringing the fleet to four systems. He is looking forward to a fruitful association with Unique in the years to come.CHS USV fleet increases to four SeaRobotics 2.5 meter USVs Pat Sanders added that this year’s training schedule did cover a wide range of topics including the HYPACK SHELL, Volumes computation and HYSWEEP along with some hands-on field training. On successful completion of the survey programmes, Ian Huggins, general manager at Unique System FZE commented to be looking forward to conducting such training programmes in the Middle East in the near future as well. ![]() The course aided the attendees to maximise their productivity using the hydrographic equipment, which could enable them to obtain efficient, high quality and accurate data and long operational hours of equipment without any maintenance damage, thus enhancing the hydrographic capabilities of offshore survey operations for effective seabed mapping. The week-long course was jointly conducted by Unique System’s engineering team along with HYPACK president Pat Sanders. The second week of the training focused on HYPACK and its software solutions. Workshop sessions were also included to better understand some of the widely used survey equipment such as underwater gyros, magnetometers & gradiometers, side scan sonar & sub bottom profilers, tide gauges, wave sensors and meteorological & water quality sensors. Some of the significant topics and systems covered during the week included single beam and multibeam survey planning & designing, single beam echo sounder and multi beam echo sounder interfacing, RTK & DGPS positioning systems, surface positioning & navigation, calibration, underwater positioning and seismic data acquisition and post processing. A wide range of geophysical, environmental and oceanographic survey systems were discussed along with some hands-on workshop sessions. The first week of the survey training was kick-started with an introduction to the hydrographic, geophysical and oceanographic survey industry by Unique System FZE’s engineering team. As a precursor to the course and as part of the training schedule, a string of training topics, both technical and operational, that are remarkably influencing the current market trends in the survey industry were also discussed. The Unique System FZE (UAE) division of Unique Maritime Group (UMG), in conjunction with HYPACK (USA), successfully conducted HYPACK’s hydrographic & offshore survey training course at its training centre in Hamriyah Free Zone, Sharjah, UAE, from 16-27 November 2014. ![]()
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