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New Products

MacGregor Delivers Birns Millennium Tritech USBL Tracking

MacGregor will deliver a suite Birns offers a new reverse-gen- Tritech offers the MicronNav 200 of overboard handling systems for the der (RG) contact con? gurations in its UltraShort Base Line system designed new oceanographic research vessel Da- 6km-rated Birns Millennium connector for small underwater vehicles and div- vid Packard owned by Monterey Bay series, which provide ? exibility and en- er support applications. New features:

Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). hanced safety and security options for data transfer interleaved with USBL

MacGregor will be delivering a traction subsea system designers who prefer that positioning, software integration into winch system and overhead crane that a power source use sockets versus pins Google Maps, improved magnetic com- will constitute the ROV Launch & Re- in the receptacle. These new solutions pass accuracy by one degree (1°) and covery System (LARS), a deck mounted ? t the same mounting footprints as non- compatibility with the new Micron Bat- davit and winch. RG receptacles. tery Modem.

Macgregor.com Birns.com Moog.com

Automated Fish Counting

Researchers from the Curtin Institute for Computation (CIC) will use the lat- est in data science to develop an automated ? sh detection and counting solution. The

CIC is part of a consortium that has been awarded $1 million in Federal funding to continue developing the AFID (Automated Fish Identi? cation) system, which uses machine learning and Arti? cial Intelligence (AI) to automatically gather informa- tion about ? sh, including species and size.

Project lead and CIC Lead Data Scientist Dr Daniel Marrable said the technology aimed to accurately, ef? ciently and more cost-effectively gather data in order to gauge marine and coastal ecosystem health, which would bene? t Australia’s multi- billion dollar ? sheries and aquaculture industries.

Bluepulse from Sercel New Valeport Instruments New Sonar, Software

Sercel launched Bluepulse, a ma- Valeport recently launched sever- EdgeTech introduced a new meth- rine acoustic source that is a purpose- al products: Bathy2 (pictured) – an en- od to provide nadir gap coverage on the built to help protect marine wildlife hanced, robust integrated instrument to EdgeTech 2205 sonar platforms. Com- from high-frequency emissions while provide density corrected depth data up plementing this new technology is So- maintaining highly accurate and reli- to 6000m; miniIPS2 and uvSVX – with narWiz from Chesapeake Technology, able results for seismic acquisition. It is interchangeable pressure heads; and providing a software solution to support compatible with all existing peripherals, SWiFT CTD and SWiFT CTDplus – processing and mosaicking the new gap and existing G-Source and G-Source II designed for a seamless work? ow, these ? ll solution, available in a number of units can be upgraded with Bluepulse pro? lers deliver improved accuracy and dual and tri-frequency con? gurations.

www.edgetech.com technology. versatility.

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