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New Shallow-Medium Depth

Multibeam Echo Sounder

Kongsberg Maritime introduced a new multibeam echo 3600m and a swath coverage of close to 4000m. Ensuring that sounder designed for survey and inspection operations in shal- the EM 712 can support the same wide range of applications low and medium water depths. The new Kongsberg EM 712 as the system it replaces, it is offered in multiple versions, multibeam echo sounder is the second generation of wideband including a 0.25 x 0.5 degree system for the best range and multibeam for these water depths. The EM 712 supersedes resolution and a smaller, portable 2 x 2 degree system ideal the EM 710, which is well established for shallow to medium for use on vessels of opportunity. All models are available as surveys. All users of the EM 710 will be offered an upgrade full versions for maximum range performance, or as a shallow path, making it easy to integrate the EM 712 into their opera- range version without FM chirp enabled. Kongsberg Maritime tions. One of the key bene? ts that the re-engineered system has also developed an ‘entry level’ model, with reduced depth introduces is increased range performance, which is close to performance.

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