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46 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News 3002, extends the functionality of multi- beam echo sounders to cover three-D imaging of biomass and other acoustic reflectors that might be present in the water column. 160 acoustic beams are sampled digitally with a spatial resolu- tion of 15cm for each ping, creating a digital image of a slice of the water mass under the transducer.

When the ship is sailing forward, a three-D description can be obtained by combining the images from several pings.

The raw display image is available as part of the operator interface.

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Deep Development

Debuts Viperfish

Deep Development Corporation intro- duced Viperfish Land a high perform- ance shock and vibration proof digital recorder that converts analog video to digital format. The result is clear, crisp, non-jerky and non-multiplexed video.

Key features include high resolution 720 x 486 pixels with a full speed 30 frames per second. Scalable to 640 x 480 plus record and view simultaneous- ly. Product applications include marine research.

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IXSEA Signs French

Navy Deal iXSea signed a €€ 1.5m contract with

DCN (Direction des Constructions

Navales) on behalf of the French Navy.

This contract is the second part of a large contract signed last year and will involve equipping OCTANS and PHINS products for navigational and combat systems on different types of French

Navy surface vessels. For the past four years OCTANS has been installed on

French nuclear submarines.

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NRC Canada Chooses

Gavia AUV

Hafmynd and Gavia AUV Corp. announced that the Canadian Research

Council has recently placed an order for a Gavia AUV to fulfil their requirement for a multi mission capable Autonomous

Underwater Vehicle. The NRC plans on using their Gavia in two main applica- tions: an inspection vehicle for potable water pipes and a test bed vehicle for newly developed sensors and actuators, free-swimming experiments and hydro- graphic mapping in lakes and oceans.

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EM 3002 Multibeam on

NOAA Vessel

The National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA)

Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC), has awarded a contract to

Kongsberg Maritime, Inc. for the supply and installation of suite of survey and positioning equipment and software for the NOAA R/V Gloria Michelle. The package includes an EM 3002 (Single)

Multibeam Sounding System including

Operator Station Software (SIS), MRU- 6 Motion Reference Unit, Seapath 20

Heading Reference Unit, Kongsberg bathymetric post-processing software and Echoview water column post-pro- cessing software.

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