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Pipeline IMR

An All-Seeing Eye

There are surveys, and then there are surveys.

For survey-tech out? t,

Ecotone, the business model is offering a faster, digital way to monitor the health of seabed environ- ments and offshore infra- structure. There’s enough to do with Norway set to invest $4.89 billion in pipelines in 2020 to add to thousands of kilome- ters of pipe worldwide.

The Trondheim compa- ny’s Underwater Hyper- spectral Imager, or UHI camera, uses the unseen colors of the spectrum to

ID and archive pipeline anomalies, moving biol- ogy or rare coral — no x-rays or acoustic pings.

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