The Teledyne Marine Channel

Combined Laser/Multibeam Sonar Survey of Sydney Harbor

Fri, 06 May 2016 10:34:02 GMT

By Dario Conforti - Teledyne Optech

Combined Laser/Multibeam Sonar Survey of Sydney Harbor

Teledyne Optech has been a world leader in the design, development and manufacture of advanced lidar instruments for 40 years. In the last few years Teledyne Optech and its sister company Teledyne RESON developed a full and seamless integration between their sensors, the motion-compensated ILRIS-3D laser scanner and the SeaBat 7125 Sonar System, through the PDS 2000 software. The ILRIS Motion Compensation (MC) option was developed to let surveyors use the normally static ILRIS dynamically by combining it with a Position and Orientation System (POS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers. The resulting system is integrated into a mobile mapping system and enables much more effective mapping in wide and complex terrain. This type of mobile laser scanning is now at the cutting edge of coastal survey technology because it allows surveyors to easily survey coastlines directly from a boat and is particularly useful for mapping long or inaccessible coastal areas. This presentation will explain the integration of the ILRIS and SeaBat sensors and showcase several applications in the last few years from Europe to North America to Australia. The survey in Sydney, Australia is the most recent survey made and shows the perfect match between the underwater data from the sonar and the shore data collected from the lidar scanner.

So You Want to Save Energy:

Thu, 31 Mar 2016 11:44:13 GMT

A Unique Application of BlueView 3-D Multibeam Sonar Technology and Best Practices to Optimize Sediment Removal Operations at Port Facilities.

Presenter: Tony Simon
Washington State University Energy Program

Underwater Technology Seminar Boston 2014 - Day 1

Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:09:22 GMT

A short insight of the first day at the UTS seminar in Boston 2014

Underwater Technology Seminar Hamburg 2014 - Day 2

Mon, 22 Sep 2014 00:13:43 GMT

Day 2 at the UTS seminar in Hamburg 2014

See day 1 here

Underwater Technology Seminar Hamburg 2014 - Day 1

Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:25:27 GMT

Day 1 at the UTS seminar in Hamburg 2014.

See day 2 here

Video paper: Pipeline surveying from a surface vessel in the Caspian sea

Mon, 25 Nov 2013 12:49:39 GMT

Surface Vessel Based Multibeam Pipeline Inspection

In a special collaboration between BP, Fugro Caspian and Teledyne RESON an unconventional approach was used to survey pipelines in the Caspian Sea. A vessel was outfitted with two pole mounts each equipped with a SeaBat 7125 SV2 using FP3. Teledyne PDS software was used to automatically detect and track the pipes in real time. A total of 710 km pipe was surveyed in just seven days. This presentation outlines the advanced technologies that were involved to collect such high resolution pipeline data.

Surveying in the most remote place in the world, Antarctica

Fri, 01 Nov 2013 14:41:45 GMT

Navigation data is poorly available in Antarctica. If navigational data is available it often dates back to the early 1900s with many lead line surveys. An initiative was undertaken by Stephen Wilkins of Xplore Expeditions to collect bathymetry with a multibeam SeaBat 7125-SV2 survey system making use of the sailing vessel Xplore. Together with Yoann Boulaire from SHOM, France and Fernando Landeta, hydrographic technician from Skyring Marine Chile, an IHO qualified survey was performed in Antarctica on an expedition sailing yacht.

See a presentation of the project recorded in September at the Teledyne RESON Underwater Technology Seminar in Copenhagen.

Teledyne RESON Underwater Technology Seminar - Shanghai 2013

Tue, 03 Sep 2013 17:04:44 GMT

Under the theme “Discover new opportunities in multibeam sonar solutions”, we had an exciting and inspiring 1-day program in Shanghai, China.

Overwhelming participation at the 2013 UTS in Shanghai

From the day’s start the numbers of attendees exceeded our expectations. When Thomas Meurling, Vice President of Sales at Teledyne RESON, started presenting the new Feature Pack 4 for SeaBat 7125 as well as the portable SeaBat T20-P, the conference was packed with more than 200 attendees.

As the day progressed, the English speakers (with translations in Mandarin) were followed by presentations in Mandarin (with translations in English). It was clear that being able to discuss sonar technology in their mother tongue was much appreciated by the Chinese attendees.

Beside the newest Sonar technology from Teledyne RESON, the attendees were also presented with a variety of technology from Teledyne BlueView, Teledyne Odom, Caris, AML, Applanix and IxBlue.

In the afternoon Shiahn-Wern Shyue, Ph.D. and Associate Professor at the National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan presented his paper: “Fish Detection and Distribution by using Multibeam Water Column Images around Artificial Reefs” (Appears in the interview above).

Professor Zhou Xinghua from First institute of Oceanography, SOA presented his paper: “RESON SeaBat7125 Multibeam Sonar is Applied in The Detection of Seabed Pipelines”.

Director Zhangliang from Shanghai Maritime safety Administration presented his paper: “Methods of improving accuracy of Multibeam survey” .

The final guest speaker was Li Sujiang, President at the Tianjin Port & Waterway Prospection and Design Research Institute co, LTD. His presentation was titled “Dredging Application of RESON Multibeam Sonar” .

There are still seats available for our seminar in Copenhagen 17-19 September and in Austin 18-21 November.
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