Applied Acoustics 400th USBL sale
Applied Acoustics of Great Yarmouth, UK has recorded the 400th sale of its Ultra Short Baseline Systems (USBL) with delivery of a Spread Spectrum rack-mounted EasyTrak Nexus unit to the Canadian Department of Fisheries & Oceans (DFO) in St John’s, Newfoundland whose central governmental mandate also includes responsibility for the Canadian Coast Guard and the Canadian Hydrographic Service.
Delivered via Applied Acoustics’ Canadian distributor, Romor Ocean Solutions, the tracking system will be used to support a wide range of DFO activities covering fish harvesting, shipping organisations, port authorities, environmental and science communities. Its spread spectrum technology enables the frequency of transmitted signals to be varied, reducing susceptibility to interference while calculating accurate positioning information. Incorporating a PC running embedded Windows XP, a system can operate with a variety of underwater targets and beacon types including pingers, responders and positioning transponders.
By David Goodfellow
