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Optech Incorporated 300 Interchange Way

Vaughan, Ontario L4K 5Z8, Canada

Tel: 905-660-0808; Fax: 905-660-0829 www.optech.ca

Email:[email protected]

President: Donald Carswell

Vice President: Dr. J. Douglas Houston

Marketing Director: Dr. Robert D. Richards

Engineering Director: Dr. Paul LaRocque

Optech's product line includes

SHOALS (Scanning Hydrographic

Operational Airborne Lidar Survey), the ALTM (Airborne Laser Terrain

Mapper), the CMS (Cavity

Monitoring System) and ILRIS ground-based scanning/imaging sys- tems. Applications include: airborne marine and terrestrial surveying, ground-based industrial and 3D imaging, and space systems and advanced technologies. Optech began as an R&D firm specializing in laser applications. It has grown from small business to a leader, with more than 200 employees and a wholly-owned

U.S.-based subsidiary. Technology

Profile: After several years of opera- tions, Optech's Scanning

Hydrographic Operational Airborne

Lidar Survey (SHOALS) bathymeter has proven to be an accurate, cost- effective, rapid, safe and flexible method for providing depth solutions ranging from approximately 1.5 to 50 meters in clear water. Historically, various approaches have been attempted to recover lidar points within the very shallow water region (<1.5 m). However, over the past two years Optech has made significant progress in the development and implementation of an automated shallow water algorithm that has not only extended the depth-sounding capability of the SHOALS bathymeter in extremely shallow waters but also enabled the system to provide a seamless lidar depth solu- tion across the land-water boundary unlike any other surveying technique or tool.

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Technology Profile: As one of the world's multidisciplinary marine research centers, PML delivers highly innovative research and solutions for national and international marine and coastal programs. The research at

PML is timely and highly relevant to

UK and international societal needs and its research, development and training programmes have a core mis- sion to contribute to issues concerned with understanding global change and the health and sustainability of marine ecosystems.

QinetiQ

Cody Technology Team, Ively Road,

Farnborough, GU14 0LX

Tel: +44 8700 100942; Fax: +44 252 393399

E-mail: [email protected]

QinetiQ is a defense and security technology company that was formed in July 2001 from the U.K.

Government's Defense Evaluation &

Research Agency (DERA). Today,

QinetiQ has over 11,500 employees, who deliver technology-based services and exploit QinetiQ's strengths in technology research by selling systems solutions, products and licenses to government and commercial cus- tomers in a spectrum of defense, secu- rity and other commercial markets.

RBR Ltd. 27 Monk St. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 3Y7

Tel: 613-233-1621; Fax: 613-233-4100

Email: [email protected]

Web address www.rbr-global.com

Since 1976, RBR Ltd. has been manufacturing high precision instru- ments for oceanographic, freshwater, groundwater and cryospheric research. Founded by Richard

Brancker, the company is now run by a team of enthusiastic engineers and oceanographers and produces instru- ments calibrated to WOCE stan- dards. The product line includes sub- mersible data loggers for CTD, tur- bidity, fluorescence, dissolved oxygen, pH/ORP, PAR, and other sensors, thermistor chains, tide gauges, and wave gauges. Recent products include a versatile data buoy controller, and laboratory salinometer. Our instru- ments are all built on a modular plat- form to permit rapid custom configu- ration. Calibration equipment at

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