Advanced survey payload for new NERC research vessel

‘RRS Sir David Attenborough’, the new £140m polar research vessel under construction by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead, UK for the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), is to be equipped with a composite range of advanced survey and mapping equipment by Kongsberg Maritime of Norway.

Artist impression of 'RRS Sir David Attenborough', the UK’s largest and most advanced multi-disciplinary  research vessel being built by Cammell Laird

‘RRS Sir David Attenborough’, the new £140m polar research vessel under construction by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead, UK for the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), is to be equipped with a composite range of advanced survey and mapping equipment by Kongsberg Maritime of Norway.