VPS, GPS, Electonic Charting
Collaboration on Port Protection
Batelle has teamed with NUWC and EdgeTech to produce a system called Harbor Shield. Harbor Shield scans the hulls of vessels entering US ports and stores the hull-print in a database. The purpose is to determine when an entering ship's hull shape has been modified. Battelle and its partners are working on creating an underwater sensor array that scans all ships as they enter U.S. harbors. Battelle is teamed with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) and EdgeTech Marine in a mutually funded and in-kind cooperative research and development program called Harbor Shield. The Harbor Shield system uses imaging technology to map the underwater hulls of ships as they enter harbors, scanning their bellies to detect weapons of mass destruction, mines, bundles of illegal drugs, and any other irregularities. It can detect the exact location on the hull of any abnormality as small as a square foot. Simultaneously, topside sensors will determine the ship's exact location in relation to the underwater sensors. The combined data will be used to create a "hullprint" that will be stored in a global network. After being scanned once and entered into the hullprint database, ships will be crossreferenced and their hullprints updated each time they sail into another American port. Eventually, Harbor Shield will contain a database of all ships that have entered American ports. The concept of the Harbor Shield technology was proven this year in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. A full-scale, baseline demonstration of the technology is planned for mid 2009 in the same estuary. As Harbor Shield matures, enhancements will be incorporated, such as improved and automated imaging (so humans won't have to stare at a screen of every rendering of every hull) and a larger database. Eventually, Harbor Shield should be capable of scanning entire harbors for every boat and swimmer.
C-Nav
730 East Kaliste Saloom Road Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-210-0000 Fax: 337-261-0192 Email: marketing@cctechnol.com URL: wwww.cnavgps.com Product: C-Nav Global Positioning System. Delivering worldwide positioning that is more precise and stable. Delivering worldwide horizontal accuracy to within one decimeter, and custom designed to meet the needs of the oil and gas industry, C-Nav is adaptable to everything from offshore exploration, dredging operations, hydrographic research and more. C-Nav is incredibly accurate, stable, reliable and flexible. C-Nav now broadcasts two independent signals worldwide and is simple, repeatable and provides global customer service 24/7. C-Nav is the next generation in DGPS -- one that will provide the quality and flexibility needed for your positioning projects.
Product: I-COMPASS - This is a new revolutionary integration of fiber optic-gyro technology with GPS that provides heading, pitch and roll measurements with the reliability and accuracy of higher priced FOG gyro systems. Sustained high-accuracy heading, pitch and roll measurements coupled with reliability and data output rates up to 50Mz make this the ideal tool for marine and offshore survey applications. By integrating FOG and GPS technologies, the I-COMPASS takes advantage of absolute heading values t oconvert a rate compass from a relative heading device to a true-north heading sensor. The I-COMPASS offers a higher level of stability than autonomous GPS heading sensors and in addition is capable of prforming at rates of turn of up to 100 degrees/second without data interruption. In situations where long-term GPS outages are anticipated, the system is available with an optional magnetic compass sensor. Visit us at www.geonav.com and download spec sheets and more information. Distributor interests are welcome.
Wavefield Inseis Adopts Trac-ID
Trac Networks, a division of TracID Systems AS, and Wavefield Inseis ASA announced the implementation of a Stabilized DVB-RCS system on M/V Malene Østevold in Seismic worldwide operation. Trac Networks has in close co-operation with C2SAT delivered their first stabilized DVB-RCS satellite communication solution for use in seismic operations. The TracSAT service provided by Trac Networks will be used for global function. The offshore industry's demand for asymmetric satellite services providing higher bandwidth ship-to-shore, transmitting large volumes of information between remote sites and headquarter, has a strong growth forecast.
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Comark Corporation
93 West St Medfield, MA 02052 Phone: 5083598161x114 Email: btranfaglia@comarkcorp.com Product: Comark manufactures high performance computer products designed to operate reliably in situations that compromise most computers. Most of these computers are used in the Marine and Military markets.
International Industries Inc.
407 Innovation Drive David taylor research Center Annapolis, MD 21402 Phone: 410-349-4080 Fax: 410-349-9390 Email: sales@internationalindustries.net URL: www.internationalindustries.net Product: Distributer of Hydrographic equipment and software, side scan sonar, sub bottom profilers, echo sounders, DGPS, motion sensors, gyrocompasses, ROVs, scanning sonars, Multibeam sonars, towed vehicles, underwater electrical connecters, winches, Survey software, sonar signal processing software, training, underwater acoustic Releases, oceanographic chemical sensors - sales and rentals
Geonav Marine Systems
10655 Richmond Avenue, Ste.190 Houston, TX 77042 Phone: 888-783-7487 Email: info@geonav.com URL: www.geonav.com
www.seadiscovery.com
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