Designed for deployment from small vessels, it provides three dimensional images of sub-seabeds with a typical penetration of 10-30m along with decimetric horizontal and vertical resolution. Results are presented as a high resolution seismic volume in near real time. The sonar receiver array consists of a number of separate sub-arrays with built in amplifiers and a high bandwidth multi-channel digital acquisition system.

Apart from detection, location and visualisation of buried objects, other applications for the system include determination of subsea sediment properties, visualisation and tracing of subsea layers, pipeline surveys and archaeological investigations. According to GeoAcoustics, its capabilities have already been successfully demonstrated at a number of marine archaeological sites and port locations, including at ABP Southampton where it has recently been used for precise mapping of a buried cofferdam.