Sea Technology

DEC 2012

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Low-Light Underwater Camera Ideal for extremely low-light-level underwater viewing and navigation, the Explorer Lite is a high-resolution, monochrome charge-coupled camera with housings rated to 1,500 and 6,000 m. The wide-angle, high-speed, aspherical lens gives a 103° diagonal feld of view of through a water-corrected front port. Bowtech Products Ltd. Bathymetry Management Software Bathy DataBASE 4.0 provides storage and analysis of sonar and lidar data. A new data set grouping tool allows for fast display and analysis of multiple grids and point cloud data sets. New database connection and query capabilities streamline work on large databases. CARIS. Underwater Security Light The Pisces is a 130,000-lumen highpressure sodium vapor lighting system. The 1-kW lamp operates in a dry, 1-atm chamber and has a 24,000-hr. lamp life. It comes with two wet-mateable connectors with gold-plated contacts. BIRNS Inc. Autopilot Software Fantum Feedback NavPilot is available in the latest NavPilot 700 series software, eliminating the need for a physical rudder feedback for NavPilot outboard installation. NavPilot achieves precise course control up to about 60 kn. and is designed for planing and semi-displacement outboard vessels from 24 to 50 ft. Furuno U.S.A. Inc. Vibration-Rejecting Gyroscopes The MTi 100-series comprises MTi100 IMU, MTi-200 VRU, MTi-300 AHRS and MTi-G-700 GPS/INS. It has a high output rate of 400 Hz, sensor component readout up to 2 kHz, 360º orientation and is individually calibrated for temperature, misalignment and g-sensitivity. Xsens Technologies BV. Wind Farm Vessel Motion Monitoring The Vessel Motion Monitoring System has a 6-degrees-of-freedom motion sensor to monitor safety thresholds for heading, heave, pitch, roll, sway and yaw. It is portable, battery-powered, has a removable hard disk for data retrieval and displays a red signal to indicate when it is unsafe to transfer. OSIL. Hydrographic Echosounder Utilizing a Windows PC, laptop or tablet as a control and display device, the HydroBook can operate standalone or in the background of HYPACK or HydroPro mapping software. It has a minimum operating depth of 0.1 m and standard survey frequencies of 200 and 210 kHz. Unabara Corp. www.sea-technology.com Sonar Software Upgrade SonaSoft 2.6 is an upgrade to the software that powers the FarSounder-500, -1000 and FS-3DT sonars. It features in-water target stabilization, chart overlay with C-MAP charts and improved automatic squelch. FarSounder Inc. Ship-Design Software ShipConstructor 2013 offers 33 new features and 194 fxes. It features a clear revision history that can be shown on bills of materials within a production drawing and includes WorkShare Design, Part View and ProductHierarchy. It is compatible with AutoCAD 2013. ShipConstructor Software Inc. Acoustic Modem Employing orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing, the AquaSeNT has a 4-km range and is available in point-topoint and networked versions. The networked version adds an onboard processor with networking frmware and software. The modems operate in 14to 20-kHz bandwidth at 3.2 kbps. The PVC housing is rated to 200 m. Aquatic Sensor Network Technology LLC. Naval Radar for Littoral Capabilities A radar electronic support measures solution for multipurpose ships, VIGILE DPX has a wideband digital receiver that directly samples the full bandwidth of the radar RF spectrum instantaneously. It allows the reception and processing of threat signals even in the presence of interfering signals, operating without degradation. Thales UK. n DECEMBER 2012 / st 71

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