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www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 57 phy and measurement systems team grew to specialize in real-time sys- tems, and developed proprietary soft- ware for data display and manage- ment. The team specializes in real- time measurement systems and phys- ical oceanographic/engineering stud- ies for offshore energy and port/har- bor applications worldwide, includ- ing a network of international repre- sentatives in 20 countries.

So far in the 21st century, Woods

Hole Group added an office in

Houston, TX to service the growing needs of the offshore oil and gas industry. A mid-Atlantic operation also was established in Delaware to support multi-year government con- tracts for operation and maintenance of NOAA's Physical Oceanographic

Real Time System (PORTS).

Building on its international experi- ence, Woods Hole Group also estab- lished an office in Riyadh, Saudi

Arabia to service its extensive client base in the Middle East, and to strengthen the environmental assess- ment & remediation team.

Technology Profile: Woods Hole

Group, Inc. is an international envi- ronmental service organization focused on: Coastal Sciences,

Engineering & Planning;

Oceanography & Measurement

Systems; and Environmental

Assessment & Remediation.

Consulting specialties include coastal geology and engineering, dredging and shore protection project imple- mentation, numerical modeling, marine survey/data collection, real- time measurement systems, physical

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Triton Imaging, Inc. 125 Westridge Drive, Watsonville, CA 95076

Tel: 831-722-7373

Email: [email protected] • www.tritonimaginginc.com

Sales Manager: John Thomas

Triton Imaging is a developer of high-performance, highly automated software tools for seafloor mapping and underwater imaging applications. Triton products are designed to acquire, process, fuse, visualize, and interpret data from a wide array of seafloor imaging sensors including: sidescan sonars, single and multi-beam echo-sounders, and seismic sub-bottom profilers. Since its inception in 1983, Triton has built a loyal, worldwide community of customers that use its products and services in a wide variety of applications. Triton customers include naval mine-hunting units; commercial survey companies; government hydrographic organizations, oceanographic institutes; marine archeolo- gists; treasure hunters, offshore diamond miners; and homeland defense agencies. Triton's collaboration with its diverse group of customers contributes to the ongoing development of practical, advanced software technologies.

Technology Profile: In 2008 Triton introduced its new Perspective product line. This innovative architecture takes advantage of the latest in software technologies including: multi-core parallel processing, indexed cache files, work- flow wizards, XML project files, multi-resolution tiling, and dB-based rendering to deliver products that are fast, accu- rate, efficient, easy to use, and that provide the tools necessary for a broad range of real-world marine applications.

Perspective Map, Triton's GIS-based mapping package forms the foundation of this new line by integrating the new

Triton MosaicOne, TargetOne, BathyPro, SeaClass, PipeTrack, and SB-Interpreter software modules into a cohesive suite capable of processing, fusing, and displaying sidescan, bathymetric, and seismic data. Each module is controlled from the Perspective Map environment via common, embedded user-interface, tools, and displays. The output from these modules is displayed as multi-layer, co-registered survey tracks, sidescan sonar images, bathymetry DTMs, tar- get icons and images, and seabed classification areas and boundaries. Having Perspective Map as the common foun- dation of all of these modules facilitates the fusion of these diverse data types into the comprehensive, accurate solu- tions that are needed to solve today's complex problems. With unparalleled performance, ease of use, versatility, and image quality, the new Triton new MosaicOne makes the production of high quality geo-registered sidescan mosaics a simple process. This new software employs the latest in software technologies to deliver advanced capabilities such as the innovative One-Button Mosaic feature. MosaicOne images are created by simply dragging and dropping raw data files into the Triton Perspective multi-layer map view. On dual and multi-core PCs, high-resolution mosaics are produced in seconds rather than minutes due to the parallel software architecture of MosaicOne. Innovative process- ing options such as nadir delete, far range clipping, and single-channel select, coupled with a comprehensive set of navigation processing tools, result in superior quality mosaics suited to specific application needs and collection regimes.

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