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People & Company News 54 MTRincluding power management systems, generators, transformers, frequency converters and motors. The systems will provide reliable and fuel efÞ cient pro- pulsion for the ships. The Ramform Titan-class ves- sels will employ multiple streamer cables, each sev- eral km in length, towed from the vesselÕs stern. NKUA Appoints Unique System FZE Unique System FZE, a Unique Maritime Group Company, was appointed as an authorized part-ner of NKUA for the Middle East region for Atmospheric Modeling and Weather Forecast- ing Group activities. The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) is the oldest (Established 1836) and biggest University of Greece. The Atmospheric Modeling and Weather Forecasting Group (AM&WFG) is part of Faculty of Physics and the Institute of Accelerat- ing Systems and Applications (IASA) of NKUA. The research activities of the group are related to atmo- spheric physics and chemistry, renewable energy, sea state and wave modeling and regional climate. The main focus is in atmospheric, energy and wave model development and applications. Other activities in- clude various applications related to energy produc- tion and management (wind energy, load forecasting) services related to weather and wave forecasting, optimal ship routing and safety. The AM&WFG is active in the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf Region by providing software and operational services (weath- er, wave, sea-current, tidal and air pollution) to vari- ous clients for more than a decade now. Unique System FZE will be responsible for the sale of Atmospheric Modeling and Weather Forecast- ing Group activities and systems and will also offer Weather Forecasting services. Lamor Appoints Unique Unique System FZE also announced its appoint-ment as an authorized distributor of Lamor for the Middle East region for their entire range of Oil Spill Response Kits. Lamor (Larsen Marine Oil Recovery) Corporation offers solutions for optimal oil spill response and recovery. Lamor provides expertise coupled with solutions that protect the environment and our eco- systems. The company develops, manufactures, and supplies best available technology (BAT) oil spill recovery equipment and services. Included in OneOcean Signs TerraSond OneOcean Corporation (www.OneOceanCorp.com ), which re-cently introduced its ClipCard platform and cloud-based service for managing marine geospatial data, announced its Þ rst enterprise customer, precision surveyor TerraSond, a leader in precision land and marine geospatial, geophysical, and geoscience survey solu- tions dedicated to imaging the earth globally. Headquartered in Palmer, Alaska, with multiple ofÞ ces in the United States as well as South America and Central Africa, TerraSondÕs services and solutions are sought by clients in the oil and gas, pipeline, power, telecom, renewable energy, mining, shipping, dredging, construc- tion and engineering sectors. As a OneOcean customer, TerraSond is taking an approach to managing over 50 terabytes (TB) of bathymetric and other hydro- graphic survey data Ð digital assets accumulated in more than 15 countries since its founding in 1994.ÒWeÕve been collecting data for nearly two decades,Ó said Tom Newman, CEO and cofounder of TerraSond. ÒBut we have been hard pressed to visually organize all of that work in a single place, and we have been seeking an efÞ cient way to manage the data itself across our growing global footprint. With OneOcean, we be- lieve we have found a solution to both of these challenges.Ó OneOceanÕs ClipCard platform gives TerraSond a summary of its worldwide data holdings that is searchable and spatially organized. Each ClipCard is a rich abstract of a unique Þ le or dataset that TerraSond has collected, linked to its source but only a fraction of the size. With OneOceanÕs global cloud infrastructure backed by Amazon Web Services, TerraSond can use the ClipCard platform to grant secure access to source data on any continent when itÕs needed.ÒClipCard was designed to help companies like TerraSond realize the greatest possible value from their data,Ó said Don Pickering, CEO of OneOcean. ÒTerraSond uses some of the worldÕs most ad- vanced technology to collect data, and weÕre proud to be offering them an equally advanced platform managing and leveraging those valuable data assets.Ó April 2013MTR #3 (50-64).indd 54MTR #3 (50-64).indd 544/3/2013 4:37:34 PM4/3/2013 4:37:34 PM