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Chesapeake Technology Inc Digital Edge Subsea

Led by Eileen Gann, President & CEO with 10 employees, Digital Edge Subsea is based in Ulverston, UK, a company

Chesapeake Technology is a privately owned company based in led by President and CEO John Benson and employing 11.

Los Altos, CA, that has been providing its SonarWiz software so- Digital Edge Subsea supplies the digital video recording in- lution worldwide for more than 25 years, specializing in geophys- spection system, The EdgeDVR. Continuous improvement is ical and hydrographic software focused on sidescan, sub bottom the mantra at Digital Edge, and latest developments include and bathymetry collection and processing. The software bridges EdgeArchive. Following on from the success of Version 5 the gap between the sonar and the ? nal product, providing users EdgeDVR, EdgeArchive is the new backup solution and the an easy to use and state-of-the-art software needed for this work. latest addition to the Version 5 suite. EdgeArchive handles the

SonarWiz is an all-in-one solution for geophysical, hydrographic, transfer of data from the internal DVR drives to client stor- pipeline, and archaeological surveys. The software provides the age, either on a NAS, a Raid, or a phased delivery to multiple user the capability to collect and process sidescan, sub bottom, external hard drives. Archive can act as a simple data mirror single beam and multibeam bathymetry and magnetometer data. of the correct internal drive data folders, or can be used to cre-

Data acquisition is easy to use and works with most sonars in the ate multiple simultaneous backups of client deliverables. This market. The post-processing suite has a wide variety of tools and can be done in continuous backup or a phased approach i.e., utilities for ef? cient visualization, analysis and reporting. after each dive.

www.chesapeaketech.com www.digitaledgesubsea.com

Falmouth Scienti? c Inc.

Falmouth Scienti? c, based in Pocasset, MA with 16 employees and led by John

Baker, has more than 30 years of experience in ma- rine acoustic sensors, trans- ducers and seismic sources.

Impact Subsea

FSI was founded in 1989

Based in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Impact Subsea was found- based on WHOI technol- ogy licenses. Since then ed in 2015 by Ben Grant and Alastair Mclennan-Murray, the company specializes in a range of high-performance sensor the focus on FSI products solutions for underwater vehicles and associated applications and services has been to fo- used in the oil and gas, renewables, underwater research and cus on sensing and acoustic defense sectors. In April 2020, Impact Subsea released the technologies over a variety ISA500-11K. Based on the architecture of the ISA500 range, of product segments. These the ISA500-11K has distance measurement capabilities in ex- product areas include the cess of 120 meters and millimeter accuracy. The ISA500-11K

Hegg Marine Solutions (HMS) Bubble Gun seismic systems, makes use of a newly designed transducer, housing and end cap. sub-bottom pro? lers (CHIRPceiver & CHIRPceiver Litt), and

Most recently, Impact Subsea released a deep-water version of combined side scan sonar and sub-bottom pro? ler systems the ISS360. Designed to provide an ideal obstacle avoidance partnered with Klein Marine Systems, as well as the ACM- and target identi? cation sonar for underwater vehicles, the re-

PLUS current, wave, and tide monitoring systems; advanced cent addition was developed to meet the demands of deep rated electro-acoustic transducers; and acoustic relocation systems.

AUV and ROVs for commercial and scienti? c applications. www.falmouth.com www.impactsubsea.com 74 September/October 2021

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