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Sonardyne 6G Wideband Acoustics allows simultaneous operations by multiple platforms.

Courtesy Sonardyne International patt 6. Here are some of the ways they motely released and brought back to the operations such as the long-term moni- are utilized: surface. toring of seabed settling and tectonic

Positioning – Deployed with other Autonomous Monitoring – An Au- plate movement. transponders on the seabed, Compatt 6 tonomous Monitoring Transponder Fetch – Sonardyne’s wireless autono- is used as a reference for Long BaseLine (AMT) has all the functionality of a mous sensor-logging node system Fetch (LBL) positioning, a concept similar in Compatt 6 with the addition of autono- provides the same functionality as an operation to above-water global posi- mous logging and text messaging and AMT transponder but is housed in a tioning, ie GNSS. LBL uses ranges mea- can be con