Major US orders for Reson – by David Goodfellow
Reson's newly developed SeaBat 7125-SV multibeam sonar system, seven of which have been ordered by the US government's National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for year round coastal and international charting operations.
Seven hydrographic survey launches operated by the US National Ocean Survey, an agency of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), are to be equipped with SeaBat-7125 SV multibeam sonar systems from Denmark’s Reson A/S.
NOAA, the governmental organisation within the US Department of Commerce, says the systems will be primarily used to support the legacy of its 200 year mission for coastal and international charting.
According to Reson, SeaBat 7125-SVs provide a number of new and important features. They include an innovative transceiver providing an integrated multiport serial card which is optionally available with pre-installed facilities for data acquisition and display as well as data processing on the same hardware platform. Four video outputs allow multiple survey and helm displays to be run.
Meanwhile, Reson reports that it is also to supply a further 6,000m depth rated SeaBat 7125 system to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s National Deep Submergence Facility (NDSF) in Massachusetts for integration into its Jason ROV. It will be the third such system to be supplied to the largest independent oceanographic research body in the US with around 1,000 staff and students, whose fleet of research vessels carries out advanced studies in the world’s major oceans.
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