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Planet Ocean booths.

Rockland Scientific unveiled the microRider-1000-6, a small instru- ment package for turbulence microstructure measurements, designed to integrate with a variety of instrument carriers, such as Ocean

Gliders, AUV, ROV, CTD rosettes, and profiling floats. microRider- 1000-6 features include: Internal

Data Recording; 1000 m pressure rat- ing; Up to five turbulence sensors; 2x

SPM-38-1 microstructure turbulence shear probes; 2x FP07-38-1 microstructure fast thermistors; and more.

BlueView Technologies demon- strated its P900-130 2D Imaging

Sonar and the BV5000 3D

Mechanical Scanner dockside at

Ocean Business. The live, in-water demonstration showcased the capa- bilities of both systems, and enable attendees to see the data and image quality that BlueView has become known for.

Turner Designs introduced C-

FINS (Fluorometric Integrated

Nautical Mapping System), integrat- ing the C3 Submersible

Fluorometer’s digital output with

GPS data for data mapping. A simple software module enables C-FINS and

ArcGIS to work together allowing for real-time mapping of fluorescence, temperature, depth, and turbidity.

The ability to capture and integrate these data reliably using the C-FINS package is an enhancement to its C3 product line.

After 15 years of success (and near- ly 13,000 Workhorse products deliv- ered worldwide), the next generation of Teledyne RDI ADCP products has arrived. Teledyne RDI announced the roll out of its new Sentinel V

Acoustic Doppler Current Profiling (ADCP) – the first in series of next generation ADCP products.

Kongsberg Maritime launched its most advanced underwater digital stills camera at the Ocean Business.

The OE14-408 is the latest underwa- ter digital stills camera to be revealed in Kongsberg Maritime’s portfolio of underwater and harsh environment cameras and imaging systems. The

OE14-408 is designed to provide superb image and color quality and has a range of newly enhanced fea- tures since the previous OE14-208 model. These include 10 mega pixels per image (double the pixel resolu- tion), improved color depth and dynamic range, Ethernet upload con- nectivity, a much faster flashgun refresh rate and a more compact housing for ease of deployment.

When used in conjunction with

Kongsberg Maritime’s new dedicated flashgun (The OE11-442), the cam- era offers accurate exposure control via through-the-lens (TTL) flash metering resulting in striking image clarity. The flashgun recharge rate has been doubled, allowing improved productivity for inspection opera- tions. The OE14-408 has a 5 x zoom capability and is depth rated from 4500m to 9000m. Each image is framed and temporarily stored on the inbuilt 8GB Solid-State Storage. The images can be the uploaded ‘on the fly’ via USB2 or Ethernet, meaning that they can be transmitted immedi- ately to the surface or to shore – and viewed anywhere on the globe, there- fore increasing operational efficiency of ROV or lander deployment.

CARIS released Bathy DataBASE 3.1, a move which the company claims continues to solve the demands for robust and scaleable data management for the storage and analysis of ever-expanding volumes of sonar and LiDAR data. Bathy

DataBASE now works with Oracle

Spatial 11g utilizing the GeoRaster and geo point cloud data structures for storage. Oracle Spatial has been specifically designed to meet the needs of advanced geographic infor- mation system applications. This lat- est release of Bathy DataBASE expands the database system options available to clients following last year’s release of Bathy DataBASE 3.0, which offered the open source 52 MTR May 2011

Rockland Scientific unveiled the microRider-1000-6, a small instrument package for turbulence microstructure measurements, designed to integrate with a variety of instrument carriers, such as

Ocean Gliders, AUV, ROV, CTD rosettes, and profiling floats. microRider-1000-6 fea- tures include: Internal Data Recording; 1000 m pressure rating; Up to five turbu- lence sensors; 2x SPM-38-1 microstructure turbulence shear probes; 2x FP07-38-1 microstructure fast thermistors; and more.of the C-FINS package.

BlueView Technologies demonstrated its

P900-130 2D Imaging Sonar and the BV5000 3D Mechanical Scanner dockside at OB 11.