Multibean sonar for ABP Southampton - by David Goodfellow
Associated British Ports Southampton has commissioned a Reson SeaBat 7101 multibeam sonar for shallow water hydrographic and engineering surveys of port confines.
Reson is to install it on the port’s survey launch, Protector, together with an Applanix POS MV WaveMaster turnkey system providing accurate attitude, heading, heave, position and velocity data. The company will also undertake training of port survey personnel in use of the assembly and associated sensors.
Reson says that the 7101 system provides a number of new and novel features. They include a top side transceiver providing an integrated multi-port serial card which is available with data acquisition coupled with display and data processing on the same hardware platform. Four video outputs allow multiple survey and helm displays to be run. Other new features include quality filtering and advanced diagnostics for increased overall survey efficiencies.
The ABP Southampton contract follows recent commissionings of other SeaBat systems in the US, with Reson due to supply 7125-SV units to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s National Deep Submergence Facility in Massachusetts and the government operated National Ocean Survey. A similar unit has also just been delivered to Derinsu in Ankara for pipeline and geophysical surveys in and around Turkey.
