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Real-time Sonar Fit onto Minehunting AUV
A real-time synthetic aperture sonar increase the speed and accuracy of mine (SAS) system has been integrated and countermeasure missions. Acquiring tested on board a U.S. Navy AUV that and processing raw data from sensors to will perform mine hunting duties for derive actionable intelligence remains the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. a challenge. According to Kraken, the
The AUV, a fully modular REMUS key is an AUV’s capability to create and 600 manufactured by Kongsberg Mari- process high resolution sonar data on
Image: Kraken time subsidiary Hydroid, was designed board in real-time. As detailed acoustic
The U.S. Navy’s REMUS 600 AUV through funding from the ONR. images are created and analyzed on-the- ? tted with Kraken’s AquaPix MIN-
SAS Synthetic Aperture Sonar.
The AquaPix MINSAS SAS, devel-
