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VIEW FROM THE TOP TROND CRANTZ, CEO, ARGEO market. The vessel was prepared properly in the Middle East, tems, and the integrators, and the sensors, one that we foresaw and the in Las Palmas we rigged all of the AUVs and ROVs with the product development that we are ourselves doing on onboard. It was fully commercialized and ready at the begin- geo-robotics. It’s a slightly different concept, in terms of how ning of February 2023. it’s put together and how it can be used.

Both are capable of diving down to 6,000 meters water depth. So it’s trying to be a bit more agnostic than the ordinary

We talked brie? y at the beginning about your company, allowing us to have a bit of play in terms of what

AUV ? eet: Teledyne Sea Raptor, Kongsberg Hu- we are developing on our own front, connecting that with our gin. Can you give us a little more insight on that digital platform, Argeo Scope, which allows us to seamlessly

AUV ? eet: why those two brands proved attrac- project data from the data acquisition platform into a cloud- tive, and do you see that growing in the future?

based system.

The ? rst AUV we bought was a Hugin system, as we have a good relationship with Kongsberg, and they have a lot of ex-

Most of our discussions center around the ability to perience: the system is proven. But we also wanted a slightly go out, collect, send, disseminate information more different system [Teledyne SeaRaptor], one which was more ef? ciently. What technological development do you of an open-source setup; one where we can choose the sys- gp

Photo courtesy Argeo

RECENT ARGEO HIGHTLIGHTS • During the summer Argeo took delivery of its Unmanned surface vessel (USV) Argus USV. • Argeo recently entered into a 5-year bareboat contract for the subsea vessel Argeo Searcher. The combination of

Searcher, our own AUVs and the possible addition of onboard

ROV’s makes this a very attractive multi-purpose operational platform for subsea operations.

Photo courtesy Argeo • Argeo has developed a recently patented portfolio of electromagnetic source and receiver systems for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, Underwater

Intervention Drones and ROVs. “Argeo Whisper” is an AUV and ROV system developed for localizing and tracking buried pipelines as well as detecting buried objects in a decommissioning survey. It can also be used for detecting unexploded ordnances. “Argeo Discover” is an application or detecting, delineating, and characterizing deep sea mineral deposits or other conductive objects below the sea? oor utilizing an electromagnetic source integrated in an AUV or ROV.

• Argeo SCOPE (previously Digital Ocean Space) software platform reached a milestone when it was released as a commercial product. Argeo SCOPE is a fast and performant 3D visualization of vast amounts of ocean space data in the cloud, supporting a collaborative data sharing and interpretation work? ow. The system allows for seamless data fusion from seabed measurements.

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