L-3's side scan sonar seminar.(Technews)

Marine Log;  April 1, 2008 ;     159 words ......Associates, Inc., Salem, N.H., announced a Side Scan Sonar Operations and Maintenance Training...who wants a better understanding of Side Scan Sonar techniques. The course is open to any user of side scan sonar regardless of brand, experience...

Dynamic Focusing Techniques for Side Scan Sonar Imaging

Sea Technology;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Imagery at Long Ranges Most conventional side scan sonar systems offer dual-frequency operation...offerings at an affordable price. Conventional Side Scan Sonar The along-track resolution of a side scan sonar is typically specified as the half-pow...

Fishers side scan sonars gaining popularity

Sea Technology;  July 1, 2001 ;     315 words ......option and a depressor wing for their side scan sonar systems. The new, longer cable and wing allow deeper water towing. Side scan sonars are one of the most sought...regardless of water visibility. A side scan finds things by sending out a sonar...

Gardline Places Order for Side Scan Survey System

Sea Technology;  October 1, 2004 ;     95 words ......recently placed an order for dual-frequency side scan survey systems from GeoAcoustics Ltd...purchased the system in 1994. Since then, the side scan has undergone various evolutions. The...to GeoChirp or GeoPulse for combined side scan/sub-bottom profiling. For more information...

Mine Detection and Classification In Side Scan Sonar

Sea Technology;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......field (MRF) model to segment each side scan sonar image into regions of object-highlig...characteristic mine signature in side scan sonar. These priors ensured that...that objects generally exhibit in side scan imagery. After the detection phase...false alarms are removed using a ...

Water Dams Scanned By Side Scan Sonar

Sea Technology;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Difficult to Attain Underwater Images Side scan sonar surveys have been applied worldwide...large areas of the seabed. In the past, side scan sonar was a powerful tool in finding...bottom, operators need to try to tow the side scan sonar transducer at an optimum height...

Side Scan Sonar Aids Katrina Clean-Up

Sea Technology;  September 1, 2006 ;     289 words ......used his JW Fisher Mfg. Inc. (East Taunton, Massachusetts) side scan sonar to survey harbors and waterways around Gulfport, Mississippi...and mark its location for removal. Collins decided to tow the side scan sonar over a trailerable catamaran. "The objective of the clean-...

International Industries Receives Order for Side Scan Sonars

Sea Technology;  November 1, 2007 ;     102 words ......received an order for 14 EdgeTech (Malborough, Massachusetts) 4200 side scan sonars from the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO) at Stennis...provides a unique advantage over the conventional dual-frequency side scan sonar by combining EdgeTech's Full Spectrum and MultiPulse...

EdgeTech Deploys Synthetic Aperture Side Scan Sonar

Sea Technology;  February 1, 2004 ;     264 words ......Horten, Norway) a synthetic aperture side scan (SAS) sonar for installation on a Hugin...EdgeTech's SAS system is part of a family of side scan sonars that can be used in shallow and...of sub-bottom profilers and combined side scan sonar/sub-bottom profiler systems. For...

Side scan sonar speeds recovery of drowning victims; Searches that took...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  September 5, 2007 ;     624 words ......results came thanks to the department's side scan sonar equipment, which the county bought...that doesn't mean all searches with side scan sonar are successful. Dakota County has...years ago, Hennepin County brought in its side scan sonar and, in short order, located the...

Klein launches model 3000 side scan sonar

Sea Technology;  May 1, 2002 ;     156 words ...Klein Associates Inc. (Salem, New Hampshire) has begun full-scale production of the advanced Model 3000 Side Scan Sonar. The all digital, single-beam system is a result of the extensive application of new technologies used to develop the transducers...

EdgeTech Side Scan Sonar Installed on REMUS 600 AUVs for the U.K. Ministry...

Sea Technology;  July 1, 2008 ;     114 words ...EdgeTech (West Wareham, Massachusetts) recently announced that their 2200-S 850-kilohertz dynamically focused side scan system will be installed on the Hydroid (Pocasset, Massachusetts) REMUS 600 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) recently ordered...

USCG Seeking Side Scan Services

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 20, 2008 ;     134 words ...NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 20 -- The U.S. Coast Guard said it was soliciting services for a side scan of the USCGC MAKO. The NAICS code for this requirement is 336611. This acquisition is a 100 percent, small business set-aside...

Teledyne Benthos Receives Order for Two Side Scan Sonar Systems

Sea Technology;  June 1, 2006 ;     199 words ......announced that it has received an order from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for two C3D(TM) 3D side scan sonar systems. These systems will be evaluated by NOAA's Office of Coast Survey for use in near-shore and very shallow nautical...

Deep Blue Marine Inc. completes side scan survey.

M2 Presswire;  December 17, 2006 ;     454 words ......Stock Information Systems: Deep Blue Marine Inc. completes side scan survey.(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:15122006 Key...pleased to announce that the company has completed extensive side scan sonar surveys of the Woman Key site and are pleased with the...