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news 12 MTR June 2006 pletely refurbished and has been outfitted with state-of-the-art equipment. The bridge, for instance has a camera system whereby all gauges in the engine room can be visually inspected. The video system enables 360 visiblity from the bridge. The ship is skippered by Francois Haulet, and there are several talented surveyors ready and willing to conduct surveys of all sorts.

The ship can accommodate just about any type of survey equipment, not just the

IXSEA instruments.

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The new IXSEA Synthetic Aperture Sonar Towed fish aboard the new IXSURVEY vessel. (Photo Credit: Maggie L. Merrill)

Triton Software Passes

NATO UUV Trials

Triton Imaging reports that its

AUV-Suite post- mission analysis (PMA) software participated in recent Unmanned

Underwater

Vehicle (UUV) Mine Countermeasure trials con- ducted by the NATO Undersea Research

Center (NURC). The Triton software was used by the Royal Norwegian Navy with is HUGIN 1000 vehicle to process sidescan and multi- beam data and to acquire, analyze, and identi- fy targets during the exercise. The configura- tion of the AUV-Suite during the exercise con- sisted of the four-screen display shown in the image below.

The Commander, Mine Warfare Command (CMWC) UUV Platoon evaluated the perform- ance of Triton's software during the exercise and made the following recommendation, "The

Triton Imaging, AUV-Suite PMA software had robust and advanced capabilities with an oper- ator-friendly graphical user interface, better than any PMA software package observed or used by the UUV Platoon. Incorporation of this software or another package with similar features is recommended for any shipboard

U.S. UUV system."

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