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Santana Joins VideoRay VideoRay said that Paco Santana has joined the company as the Director of Business Development. Santana?s re- sponsibilities will include developing and leading the VideoRay Business De- velopment team in sourcing, managing, and implementing new business oppor- tunities, especially in the Military, Law Enforcement, and Offshore Oil & Gas markets. Santana comes to VideoRay with 26 years of leadership experience and management expertise, including over 22 years of service in the U.S. Navy. He retired in 2008 as a Special Operations Of cer and Master Explo- sive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) techni- cian. His last naval appointment was as the Program Manager for Joint Service and Navy EOD. In addition to his naval service, Mr. Santana spent four years in the private sector. His most recent posi- tion was at iRobot where he served as the Director of Maritime Systems Ap- plications from 2009 to 2012.BlueÞ n Offers SeeTrack AutoTracker SeeByte, a leader in creating smart software for unmanned maritime sys- tems, and Blue n Robotics, the leading provider of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) solutions, announced their collaboration to provide enhanced software solutions for deepwater export pipeline inspections. The collaboration is aimed at equipping Blue n?s 21-inch AUV platforms with SeeTrack Auto- Tracker. SeeTrack AutoTracker was de- veloped to enable AUVs to perform ex- port pipeline inspections using on-board payload sensors to detect pipelines and automatically adjust the vehicle?s trajec- tory to optimally track the pipeline.Kraken Wins Government Funding Kraken Sonar Systems signed a Con- tribution Agreement with the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP). The funding will be applied to the development of AquaTrak - a new Correlation Velocity Log (CVL) de- signed for underwater navigation. Aqua- Trak will be used to measure the speed over ground of Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) and can also be used for high resolution current pro ling. The CVL is similar to the DVL in that it uses sonar echoes from the seabed, however the CVL does not measure frequency shift but instead takes direct spatial measurements of vessel displace- ment between successive sonar trans- missions using a sparse array of receiver elements. The layout of the elements is optimized to allow for many possible displacement vectors with a small num- ber of receiver elements, a speci c array con guration known as ?minimum re- dundancy? which is used also by radio- astronomers to address the complexity of their instruments. This allows size, weight and power to be signi cantly reduced compared to the DVL while offering increased accuracy. Also, by operating at a lower frequency, the CVL offers increased operational range. ?We greatly appreciate the funding support from NRC IRAP to help us develop such an innovative sensor for underwater navigation,? said Karl Ken- ny, President and CEO, Kraken. ?We expect that our AquaTrak CVL will provide a superior value proposition to customers as it will feature greater per- formance in speed, accuracy, and range; with lower size, weight, power and cost than conventional technology.? Kraken Sonar Systems earlier an- nounced that it acquired all Intellectual Property (IP) rights to the AquaPix Syn- thetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) technology platform from Marport Deep Sea Tech- nologies Inc. Kraken was recently spun- out from Marport and is headquartered in St. John?s, Newfoundland. Sensor Technology Ltd. PO Box 97, 20 Stewart Rd. Collingwood, ON, Canada, L9Y 3Z4 Tel: +1 705.444.1440 ? Fax: +1 705.444.6787 ? Web: www.sensortech.ca Sensor Technology Ltd . specializes in underwater acoustic transduc- ers, hydrophones, echosounders and piezoelectric ceramics in vol- umes ranging from prototyping to full-scale production. The company is vertically integrated, manufacturing the piezoelectric materials as well as the acoustic transducers that utilize them and the electronics required to implement them, thereby providing fully optimized product designs, end-to-end quality assurance and greater control over delivery scheduling. Established in 1983, Sensor Technology Ltd. is registered to ISO 9001.SensorTech EL MTR Jan 13.indd 112/12/2012 5:11:34 PMwww.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 53MTR #1 (50-64).indd 53MTR #1 (50-64).indd 531/30/2013 11:30:32 AM1/30/2013 11:30:32 AM