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SONAR SYSTEMS AND SUB-BOTTOM PROFILERS

Our Sonar Systems Division (SSD) has built a strong expertise in designing, developing and manufacturing active transducers from a few hundred Hz to hundreds of Khz with associated matching units & power amplifiers, and also passive sensors such as hydrophones.

By combining the iXSea acoustic and inertial knowledges, we have developed one of the most advanced and accurate seabed imaging and mapping solutions with unrivaled swath capacities: the Shadows synthetic aperture sonar.

Our product range also includes Sub-Bottom Profiler systems (ECHOES family) and an industry leading software suite, DELPH which covers the acquisition, processing and interpretation of side-scan sonar, seismic and magnetic data.

 

SHADOWS

High productivity seabed mapping sonar

Shadows is a side scan sonar providing a revolutionary concept based on ortho-rectified and georeferenced image. It is a perfect choice for hidrography, geophysical and oceanographic survey.

FEATURES

  • 15 cm along and across track
  • Up to 600m swath
  • Frontal looking sonar (GAP filler)
  • Real Time orthorectified imagery
  • Client-server architecture
  • Standard data format
  • Complete system solution

BENEFITS

  • Constant image resolution with no beam distortion over the whole range
  • No gap at nadir
  • Full featured system from data acquisition to charts production

APPLICATIONS

  • Hydrography
  • EEZ mapping, Law of the Sea
  • Environmental & Marine protected areas
  • Offshore & Route survey
  • Debris survey
  • Pre/Post Dredging

 

ECHOES 3500

Pole mounted or towed sub-bottom profiler solution

ECHOES3500 is a low frequency, high power, wide band sub-bottom profiler (SBP). This hull mounted system is highly focused enabling high resolution imaging. It is perfect for all weather sensitive operations in medium to deep water.

FEATURES

  • Full package: antenna, rugged rack, PC and software
  • Flat-spectrum, high-directivity CHIRP antenna emission
  • 22 cm resolution
  • Databasing of all information

BENEFITS

  • Turnkey vessel equipment solution
  • Very low profile distortion
  • Unparalleled data quality at full ocean depth
  • Ready for DELPH SEISMIC INTERPRETATION

APPLICATIONS

  • Full-ocean depth site investigation
  • Foundations
  • Engineering
  • Resource assessment
  • Shallow gas

 

ECHOES 1500

Low frequency sub-bottom profiler solution

Successor of the boomer/sparker technology, featuring single transducer repeatable sound source, ECHOES 1500 is a handy turnkey survey solution with towing system. It includes DELPH SEISMIC ACQUISITION and turns into full feature survey tool with DELPH SEISMIC INTERPRETATION productivity software.

FEATURES

  • Full package: antenna, rugged rack, towing buoy system, PC and software
  • Flat-spectrum, high-directivity CHIRP antenna emission
  • 27 cm resolution
  • Databasing of all information

BENEFITS

  • Easy setup turnkey survey solution
  • Very low profile distortion
  • Unparalleled data quality at full ocean depth
  • Ready for DELPH SEISMIC INTERPRETATION

APPLICATIONS

  • Shallow water to full ocean depth survey
  • Offshore mining, cable route investigation
  • Environment and continental shelf survey