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Nautronix

Nautronix House, Howe Moss Avenue, Kirkhill, Dyce, Aberdeen, AB21 0GP, Scotland

Tel: +44 (0)1224 775700; Fax: +44 (0)1224 775800

Email [email protected]

Employees: 270+

Company profile

Nautronix (Holdings) plc is the parent company for the

Nautronix Group which consists of four operating divisions:

Nautronix plc, Aberdeen - NASNet and Commercial

Acoustics; Nautronix Ltd, Fremantle; Nautronix Inc, San

Diego CA and Houston TX; and, Nautronix MariPro Inc,

Santa Barbara CA. Nautronix (Holdings) plc was incorporat- ed on November 9, 2001 to purchase the shares of

Nautronix Ltd, then an ASX listed company, and its sub- sidiaries. After completing the acquisition of these shares the company became privately owned; moving its head- quarters from Fremantle, Australia to Aberdeen, Scotland.

Technology profile

Hydro acoustics has been the dominant technology for positioning, communication with, and sensing of underwater objects since the beginning of the last century. To meet the demand for ocean resources, users of this technology are demanding greater accuracy, reliability, range, depth, data and higher data rates. Nautronix specializes in this field and it has used its experience in conventional narrowband sig- naling and broadband chirps, as a base from which to con- centrate on increasing signal bandwidth to develop Acoustic

Digital Spread Spectrum, (ADS²) signaling. This is derived from direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) coding techniques successfully used above water.

Nautronix R&D program is ongoing and its systems are subjected to thorough and extensive testing in both deep and shallow water. Nautronix systems have been widely deployed in a variety of positioning and communications products to military and non military customers. The

NASNet system provides the Offshore Oil and Gas commu- nity with highly accurate multi user underwater positioning.

NAS-HAIL is a robust text and data through water commu- nications system in use in the Australian, British and US

Navies. Together these technologies have been applied to provide underwater test and evaluation ranges for those navies.

San Diego, CA 92123-6501

Tel: 858-565-8400; Fax: 858-268-9695

E-mail: [email protected]

Internet: http://www.interoceansystems.com/

For over 55 years InterOcean

Systems has been a leader in the design and manufacture of premier quality oceanographic and environ- mental equipment and systems. The company continually improve and broadens its line of products. The product line includes S4 Current

Meters, Wave & Tide Gauges,

Meteorological/Oceanographic (METOC) Buoys, Acoustic Releases,

Winches & Marine Handling

Systems, Hydrophones, and Remote

Oil Spill Detection and Sampling.

IVS 3D 1500A Lafayette Rd, FMB 379, Portsmouth, NH 03801

Tel: 603-431-1773; Fax: 603-766-0485

E-mail: [email protected]

CEO: Lindsay Gee

President: Mark Paton

Marketing Director: Bill McKernan

Number of Employees: less than 50

IVS was founded in 1995 to pro- vide interactive 3D visualization and analysis software and services for the ocean mapping industry. The primary product is the Fledermaus software suite, an interactive 3D visualization and analysis software that originated from research at the Ocean Mapping

Group (OMG) at the University of

New Brunswick. Since the company's inception, the Fledermaus software suite has established itself as the industry leading software for 3D visu- alization of marine information and associated attributes, specializing in extremely large data sets. The soft- ware has been used extensively across the ocean industry in geological sur- veys, hydrographic surveys, mine clearance and beach landing sur- veys; and a variety of geo-hazard sur- veys in support of offshore engineer- ing projects worldwide. In 2004, IVS was awarded a Federal Laboratory

Consortium Award for Excellence in

Technology Transfer for collaborative work through a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the US Naval Oceanographic Office.

Technology Profile

The Fledermaus software suite is a powerful interactive 3D data visuali-

Lindsay Gee, CEO

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