Aug
16
2016

Using “hydroacoustic properties” to date lava flows

Isobel Yeo of GEOMAR’s Helmholtz Institute for Ocean Research Kiel is calculating the date of lava flows from undersea volcanoes by using the reflectivity returned by sonar backscatter. Nice article on the BBC website here http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160808-the-volcanoes-hiding-in-the-ocean and her paper can be downloaded here http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X16000510

Aug
11
2016

R2Sonic have released a major firmware update

It looks like R2Sonic have been busy. Pitch stabilisation and ROBO mode! Major firmware & GUI releaseStandard frequency range is expanded to 170-450kHz for Sonic 2026 systems, and Sonic 2022 and 2024 systems with model 1006 projectors.GUI now includes ROBO Mode for shallow water surveys less than 40m in depth, simplifying sonar operation.700kHz UHR option […]

Aug
09
2016

MUNIN Pipeline Inspection

An excellent article here Read more… on the @KOGMaritime Kongsberg MUNIN’s pipeline inspection project in the Great Lakes. I used it to test out AUV processing in Qimera (following on from Loch Ness) and also the new pipeline inspection capability in Fledermaus. The image is showing the results in Fledermaus with the point cloud from […]

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