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Image courtesy Kongsberg Discovery Image courtesy Teledyne Marine

New Products

Teledyne Marine had its traditional mega-booth at Oi, busy start to ? nish.

Image courtesy Greg Trauthwein offers quality sub-bottom pro? ling capability without the need tion of offshore windfarms. GeoPulse 2 introduces new capa- for any dedicated transducers or cabinet of electronics. That bilities that enhance both its operation and data quality.

means no additional hardware beyond what is used for the The system is a drop-in replacement for the GeoPulse Pinger

EM 124 or EM 304 MBES systems – which is in most cases using the 5430A transmitter. It is fully digital and features a va- already available on board the vessel. Essentially, the EM SBP riety of waveforms unavailable with the previous generation of software “borrows” the EM 124/304 hardware to transmit the GeoPulse Pinger. The GeoPulse 2 is available in 4, 9 or 16 trans- downward-looking sub-bottom signals at a given interval. The ducer con? gurations giving an operational depth range down to sequence of sub-bottom versus multibeam signals, or pings, 5,000m. Achieving resolutions up to 6 cm and penetrating depths is user selectable. The EM SBP software con? gures the sub- of up to 80 meters in ? ne clay and 20 meters in sand, GeoPulse 2 bottom transmit and receive parameters, picks up the returned sets a new benchmark for accuracy and depth penetration.

echoes, and processes the data to create sub-bottom images that are visualized and logged to ? le.

NEW PRODUCTS

GeoAcoustics launched the GeoPulse 2 Sub-Bottom Pro- Kongsberg Discovery debuts a new analysis tool developed ? ler, which is a new generation of GeoAcoustics sub-bottom with Cathx Ocean that it says ‘radically’ reduces the time and pro? ling technology, reaching into deeper waters for the ac- effort required to detect and classify objects of interest in sea- quisition of essential data for e.g., the development and opera- bed surveys undertaken by Kongsberg’s HUGIN AUVs, auto- www.marinetechnologynews.com 43

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