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Terradepth will partner Hypack en- able surveyors to run Hypack’s soft- ware directly in the cloud through

Terradepth’s Absolute Ocean plat- form, aiming to streamline the hy- drographic survey work? ow, ad- dressing a critical challenge in the hydrographic surveying industry.

Traditionally, surveyors process data locally on laptops and face signi? - can rapidly ingest and process the data or 3D point cloud analysis of sensor data cant hurdles in receiving the data in and make it available as petabyte-scale using tools that make it easy to isolate a timely manner and then sharing that ? le structures for processing. speci? c geographic locations and to look data with end users when processed,

The TrueOcean platform technology for historic trends even with complex often relying on slow and inef? cient already contains over 65 individual mi- data formats involving multibeam, side methods such as ? le hosting services croservices, each conducting highly spe- scan and sub-bottom pro? ler data. Data or physical hard drive shipments.

ci? c tasks in a large-scale but modular quality metrics like point spacing, motion

By integrating Hypack software environment. “Traditional monolithic and horizontal and vertical resolution can with Terradepth’s cloud-native Ab- and non-cloud architectures, where all be computed on an individual ping basis solute Ocean platform, hydrograph- functionalities reside within a single co- in hours rather than weeks or months.

ic surveyors can now process ocean debase, struggle to handle the scalability Taking advantage of cloud comput- data in near-real time during surveys and agility demanded by the industry. ing, north.io is working with NVIDIA and seamlessly contextualize it with

As geospatial data volumes grow ex- on physics-based AI approaches for un- existing geophysical data. This in- ponentially, monolithic systems experi- derwater acoustics modeling. Wendt is tegration dramatically reduces the ence performance bottlenecks, become comparing the use of modeled values of time from data collection to action- cumbersome to maintain and are reach- sound speed in water, which can change able insights, shrinking lead times ing their limits very fast,” says Wendt. with temperature and salinity, to those from weeks to hours.

Instances of the platform can be de- typically measured every six hours at sea. “We are very excited to share our ployed across geographically dispersed AI modelling has achieved 99.7% accu- latest innovation in ocean data pro- cloud platforms. Individual microser- racy compared to the physical measure- cessing with the integration vices could be deployed on edge com- ments, and it can be performed for every of Absolute Ocean and HYPACK’s puting devices like those found on data point in a dataset, instead of every sonar data software,” said Joe Wol- research vessels and operate even in re- six hours. This physics-based approach fel, CEO of Terradepth. “Our goal mote locations. This enables data-driven could change how surveyors work with is to revolutionize the hydrographic decisions in real-time, leading to more AI, says Wendt. “It is so new that we industry, making ocean data more productive expeditions. have yet to evaluate what it means in the accessible, ef? cient, and actionable

Rather than aggregating data into raster end from a professional and business per- than ever before, and this partner- grids, the company’s latest development spective.” He is now talking with experts ship is a great example of this.” on big data processing, Zeus, enables 2D across the industry to ? nd out.

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