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EdgeTech image-enhancing pro-
prietary technologies are available
in standard or engineered-to-order
marine products and solutions. In
addition to these pioneering tech-
nologies, EdgeTech's expertise in
telemetry, compact and low-power
electronics, modular designs and
software programming allows the
company to provide unique and
tailored solutions for platforms that
include towed bodies, powered
towed bodies, ROVs, USVs, ASVs,
UUVs and AUVs.
On the acoustic release side of the business, in recent
years EdgeTech developed the Portable Acoustic Command
(PACS) deck box. The compact, versatile and fully tran-
sponding deck box is one of the most cost-effective fully
functional acoustic release deck boxes on the market today.
Also in the product line, and developed within the last de-
cade, is the PORT family of acoustic releases. The Push Off
Release Transponder (PORT) is ideal for mooring deploy-
ments in waters from 5 to 3,500 m. The unique Ultem push-
off mechanism provides a reliable release underwater, even
where moorings and release mechanisms can experience
growth or sediment buildup.
Most recently, the company has seen an increase in sonar
systems for unmanned vehicles both on the surface (ASVs/
USVs) and subsea (AUVs/UUVs). Additionally, with the ad-
vent of lower oil and gas prices, there is a need for operators
and surveyors to improve survey effciency while increas-
Network to NOAA's deepwater tsunami warning systems.
From self-contained shallow-water pop-up recovery systems
to long-term full ocean depth release systems, the EdgeTech
acoustic releases are seen throughout the world in any num-
ber of remote mooring applications.
The company's legendary TrackPoint USBL equipment
has been an industry standard for over 20 years. In the recent
decade, a new broadband acoustic tracking system (BATS)
was developed to achieve incredible accuracy at extremely
long ranges and supplement the older TrackPoint systems.
Over the past few decades, EdgeTech has developed
many unique and exciting underwater imaging technologies
such as full-spectrum chirp processing, multipulse technol-
ogy, dynamically focused (DF) arrays, and multiphase echo-
sounder (MPES) bathymetry. These advancements and other
A 2015 side scan sonar and bathymetry image taken from a
new EdgeTech 6205.