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IXSEA 55 Avenue Auguste Renoir, Marly le Roi, France 78160

Tel: +33 (0) 1 30 08 98 88; Fax: +33 (0) 1 30 08 88 01

E-mail: [email protected]

CEO: Thierry Gaiffe

Marketing Director: Arnaud Quelquejay

Sales Director: Eric Richaud

Company Profile

IXSEA combines smart technology and experience to provide systems and solutions for the scientific, offshore and defense markets in: Navigation and positioning;

Imagery; Moorings; Survey; and Space.

In 2006, IXSEA has three industrial sites in France as well as a global sales network in Europe, America and

Asia. IXSEA currently employs 180 people, with more than fifty PHD graduates and engineers concentrating solely on research and development. Pioneers of cutting edge tech- nology, IXSEA strives to invent cost-effective, time-efficient, reliable and user-friendly systems and solutions. IXSEA offers a broad and unique range of complementary sys- tems and solutions built on key technologies: • FOG (Fiber Optic Gyroscope) technology Underwater acoustics Seismic, sonar and magnetometer imagery solutions

Technology Profile

IXSEA's seismic, sonar and magnetometer imagery solu- tions integrate hardware with interpretation tools. SHAD-

OWS, the latest system, is the first commercially available off-the-shelf Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS). It is a quick and efficient high-performance sonar system with synthetic aperture processing, which offers unparalleled image quali- ty in real-time with no gap at nadir boosting productivity.

SHADOWS doubles the resolution while reducing survey costs by one-third. It is a solution for sidescan survey appli- cations: cable route, offshore mining, pre-dredging survey, small objects search on the seabed and shipwreck search and salvage. Moreover SHADOWS is compatible with

GAPS and POSIDONIA, IXSEA's USBL positioning sys- tems.

IXSEA's Fiber Optic Gyroscope (FOG) technology, which has reached the highest international standards for use in space as well, is at the heart of the company's

Gyrocompasses and Inertial Navigation Systems. By merg- ing Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) and Global Acoustic

Positioning Systems (GAPS, IXSEA's USBL), IXSEA pro- vides accurate and robust subsea positioning where all data is fused into optimal solutions.

Thierry Gaiffe, CEO

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