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www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 31 was VisualSoft’s motivation for Visual3D-Inspector, a new add-on module to the VisualWorks Inspection Suite.

Using Visual3D-Inspector, Inspection Engineers prepare and preview inspection workscopes and track completions using a set of inspection and visualization tools integrated with online video and sensor data acquisition and with offline video review and event editing. These tools also integrate with the leading software packages in the indus- try such as COABIS, EIVA, and Netlink to allow clients to see their data the way they want to see it. The ability to easily view information and understand complex spatial data from numerous different sources is extremely impor- tant in our data rich world. VisualSoft allow users to choose between viewing data through the client’s own geo-spatial database structure/GIS or using the

VisualReview program which is distributed free of charge and can be bundled together with the data on a CD/DVD for automatic playback.

Practical Deployment

As well as being designed for inspection workscope visu- alisation and tracking, Visual3D-Inspector can also be used for post-inspection visualisation of legacy data. For example, VisualSoft recently deployed the Visual3D-

Inspector Viewer to a client in Egypt who wished to map inspection data they had collected of their platform using

VisualWorks. This involved importing the platform model and automatically mapping its component list of conductors, elevations, faces, legs, risers, guards, etc to a client-specific project tree containing the survey data. The selection of components in the 3D Model Viewer enabled the client to jump directly to the component list to see what survey data has been collected and then step through all recorded event anomalies reviewing what had been observed and what features had been recorded. This allowed the client to visualise and interpret all survey data of the platform from their desktop PC, conduct rapid condition reviews and extract relevant video sequences, clips and stills and event details for submission of findings to their client. For future surveys they will be able to use

Visual3D-Inspector from the start of the job and for tracking component inspection records for time-based component analysis.

VisualSoft is presently discussing other deployments of their integrated 3D Model Viewer with clients who wish to link together pipeline/structural and FPSO/Ship Hull inspection surveys in a single application and to integrate with existing GIS databases.

Figure 3: Visual3D-Inspector Integrated with VisualWorks for inspection workscope vizualization.