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New Tech Set to Debut in London

03/04/2010

L-3 Klein Associates debut the HydroChart 5000 system for underwater hydrographic surveys.

Featured below are select previews of companies planning to exhibit new technologies, systems or services at the Oceanology International exhibition, scheduled for London ExCeL, March 9-11, 2010.

AML Oceanograpic - Booth F200
AML Oceanographic – formerly Applied Microsystems – will introduce Sensor-Xchangeable Instruments at OI 10. These instruments allow users to change any instrument’s sensor-load, in-the-field and on-demand. A CTD can be an SVTP; Shallow pressure sensors can be swapped for deep; and temperature range can be changed, as needed.

Applied Acoustics - Booth i400
Applied Acoustics will be exhibiting its range of subsea tracking and seismic survey equipment at Oceanology this year with two new editions. Complementing the Easytrak USBL tracking systems will be a new small, compact version and adding to the CSP seismic energy sources, will be a powerful 12kJ unit.

Ashtead Technology - Booth H305
View the latest Seanic Class 1-4 ROV torque tool, launching at the show. Have some fun at our surprise game. Ashtead Technology specialize in the rental of Positioning, ROV, Hydrographic, Geophysical, Diving and IRM Equipment.

Barum & Dewar –Booth P350
Barum and Dewar unveil a new extended range of drill cases, including bespoke aluminum solutions to a vast stock of Peli, Thermodyne and Zarges containers.

Government of Canada - Booth P130
Canada is proud to showcase its Ocean Technology sector. At the show, they are launching a new product - the Canadian Ocean Technology Map.

CARIS - Booth E605
CARIS is leading the way in the development of GIS software for the marine industry. Its products are selected by mapping agencies, survey companies, port authorities and utility companies internationally.

Coastline Surveys - Booth H700
C-Pen20 is a compact CPT system for seabed geotechnical evaluation to support cable and pipeline route surveys, port development, and pre-dredge assessment.

CodaOctopus - Booth G200
CodaOctopus will highlight the new Coda Survey Engine Seismic+ with a detailed overview of its new features. Also operating daily Echoscope real-time 3D sonar technology on-water demos.

Cygnus Instruments - Booth R240
Cygnus Instruments is a manufacturer of underwater thickness gauges for divers. The latest Cygnus Underwater is IPX8 rated, which allows continuous underwater operation up to 300 m depth. The feature of “Deep-Coat” mode facilitates measuring through even thicker coatings up to 20 mm thick.

Falmouth Scientific, Inc. -Booth H200
FSI is a leader in the development and manufacturing of oceanographic instrumentation. FSI’s products range from estuarine to full ocean depths. Products include current, wave, and tide meters, AUVs, and underwater structural stress/vibration monitoring systems.

Fugro Group- Booth E100
At OI ’10, Fugro will feature the integration of services for three of the client sectors they serve - oil and gas; renewable energy and maritime (including UNCLOS and Law of the Sea), with presentations on the stand to feature new Fugro
technologies and services.
The new technologies presented will include:
- Two new positioning products
- G2 - first real-time GLONASS Precise Point Positioning (PPP) service ever
to be launched.
- Starfix NG - the new generation of Fugro's state-of-the-art survey software
suite
- The new SEAWATCH Midi Buoy
- DeepWorks, a fully integrated subsea engineering simulation and visualization software toolset from Fugro GRL
- Real-time measurement and forecast data directly linked into the Fugro GEOS Helideck Monitoring system
- The integrated services, including their geotechnical specialism, that Fugro brings to the rapidly expanding offshore wind sector

GeoAcoustics A Kongsberg Company - Booth #E600
GeoAcoustics GeoSwath Plus wide swath bathymetry system is now available on the Hydroid Remus 100 AUV. Both companies who have been recently acquired by Kongsberg Maritime joined forces to deliver the Full Picture to the customer.

Hafmynd – Gavia AUV - Booth A205
The Gavia Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) is a versatile man portable survey solution with a modular construction. The Gavia can carry an array of sensors and custom payload modules that make it perfect for any research, monitoring or surveillance task where autonomy, cost and ease of deployment matters. Its modular design allows for rapid sensor reconfiguration and battery replacement.

Innovatum Ltd. - Booth L155
Innovatum provides magnetic cable and pipeline tracking and area survey systems; a light weight, low power systems, from the beach to 3000m water depth, to be used on an ROV, towed sled and small vessels.

ISE - Booth B705
ISE was formed in 1974 to design and build underwater vehicles for the subsea industry. During the last 35 years ISE has built remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), manned submersibles, semi-submersibles, robotic manipulators and AUVs.

IXSEA - Booth F100
IXSEA, manufacturer of FOG Inertial Navigation System (INS) and innovative subsea acoustic navigation systems, offers tightly coupled solutions for navigation of your vehicles (AUV, ROV, sonar, towed fish) with optimized performances.

Kongsberg Maritime - Booth E600
With hydrographic, camera, AUV and positioning solutions Kongsberg Maritime’s booth will reflect the ‘The Full Picture’ strategy. In combination with MMT there will also be on-water demonstrations aboard a 16m survey vessel.

LinkQuest Inc. - Booth H10
LinkQuest manufactures precision acoustic instruments including sophisticated underwater acoustic modems, USBL tracking systems, acoustic current profilers and Doppler velocity logs. At OI LinkQuest will exhibit:
- TrackLink USBL acoustic tracking systems
- SoundLink high speed underwater acoustic modems
- FlowQuest acoustic current profilers
- NavQuest Doppler velocity logs
- PinPoint LBL acoustic positioning systems
LinkQuest will also exhibit the newly released small and light-weight FlowQuest 2000 acoustic current profiler which operates at 2 MHz with a blank distance as short as 10 cm.

L-3 Klein Associates, Inc. Booth G500
L-3 Klein Associates debut the HydroChart 5000 system for underwater hydrographic surveys. The Klein HydroChart 5000 combines high-resolution 455 kHz Multibeam side scan sonar with high-definition Interferometric bathymetry sonar to deliver spectacular IHO-quality imagery.

MacArtney Underwater Technology Group - Booth D200
MacArtney will introduce its newest innovation in multiplexer, the NEXUS MK E electrical multiplexer, and plans on showing a demonstration of a working active heave compensation winch.

Marine Technology Reporter - Booth A20
Marine Technology Reporter is the global subsea industry’s leading b2b publication, with the largest audited circulation in the world.

Ocean Instruments Ltd. - Booth L155
Representing McLane Research Laboratories Inc., Seapoint Sensors Inc., Oceanscience Inc., Zebra-Tech Ltd.
Sediment Traps, Water Samplers, Profilers, Turbidity and Fluorometer sensors, Underway CTD, Hydro-Wipers.

OceanWaveS - Bbooth H250.
OceanWaveS participated in a three-year Joint Industry Project (JIP) the ‘On board Wave and Motion Estimator (OWME)’. The project aimed to develop, demonstrate and validate a new type of system to predict vessel motions on board in real time and in advance. The OWME system uses the Wave Monitoring System WaMoS II to derive wave profiles in a distance of 1–2km ahead of a vessel by means of X-Band radar. A linear propagation module then predicts the wave field at the vessel location at the time the recorded wave train will reach it. Finally, the vessel motions resulting from this wave conditions are estimated. OWME allows predicting quiescent periods of vessel motion up to two minutes in advance.

Planet Ocean Ltd - Booth J-500 Oi10.
Fluid Imaging Technologies announces major imaging improvements for Flowcam. Its new camera and imaging software increase FlowCAM’s speed, quality and resolution without increasing the price of the instrument.

Questar Tangent - Booth F240
Vessel track lines exhibiting real-time single beam classification with a QTC VIEW Series 5.5, overlaid on a S57 chart, Vancouver Island, Canada. Quester Tangent will show latest real time seabed classification software for single beam echosounders, or to find out how to make a seabed classification map from your multibeam or sidescan data.

Seamor Marine Ltd. - Booth N150
Seamor 300F 2/4 HD
Seamor 300F 2/4 ROV with broadcast quality high definition (HD) video. Depth rated to 300m, this open-frame, portable underwater system lets the user experience more than 2,000,000 effective pixels of clarity.

SeeByte - Booth Number N355
SeeByte, a software solutions company, creates some of the world’s most advanced technology for unmanned systems. SeeByte is helping these systems become fully aware of their environment and take optimum decisions.

Sensor Technology - Booth R220
Sensor Technology Ltd. specializes in custom, undersea sensors. The company will showcase the breadth of its capabilities: from advanced hydrophone and acoustic transducer design services, to prototyping, to full-scale production.

Teledyne RD Instruments - Booth D100
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Teledyne RDI will exhibit its new Citadel line of Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth (CTD) products, as well as our full line of acoustic Doppler products.

Teledyne Marine - Booths D100 & K150
One stop shopping! The following companies will be exhibiting under the Teledyne Marine umbrella: Teledyne Benthos, Teledyne DG O’Brien, Teledyne Geophysical Instruments, Teledyne Impulse, Teledyne Odom, Teledyne RD Instruments, Teledyne TSS, and Teledyne Webb Research.

Trimble - Booth K555
Trimble offers high-precision centimeter level (RTK) positioning as well as submeter (DGPS) positioning solutions which can be integrated with other marine sensors to create application specific marine systems.

Turner Designs, Inc. - Booth F550
Turner Designs announced the Cyclops-7 Submersible Fluorometer with excitation at 260nm for detection of Refined Fuels. Using BTEX as the standard, the C7 detects 0.1ppm over a dynamic range >250ppm.

Turo Technology Pty Ltd.- Booth R205
Turo offers multiparameter water quality analyzers, telemetry systems, portable winches and XBT data recorders. Turo’s Quoll and Devil XBT data recorders are compact and lightweight with Ethernet or USB connection.

VideoRay LLC - Booth M150
The VideoRay Pro 4 ROV is the latest technology from one of the world’s leading Inspection Class ROV manufacturer. This system offers improved features and a standard depth rating of 305 m (1,000 ft.)