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Hydrographic Survey by David Goodfellow

QinetiQ Sonar Development

QinetiQ has announced the world's first commercially available towed synthetic aperture sonar with integrated interferometric profiler, GeoSAS , which is to be marketed by GeoAcoustics (UK) of Great Yarmouth.

Of modular construction, it can easily be adapted for towed survey or AUV hull-mounted operations and is claimed to be the only practical off-the-shelf SAS tool available for combined bathymetry and imaging.

The company adds that GeoSAS is also the only system of its type capable of offering long range 2.5cm (one inch) resolution with a coverage rate of 5.5km 2per hour, making it ideal for rapid route survey and mine countermeasures operations.

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