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ICAN
Suite 201 1118 Topsail Road, Mount Pearl
Newfoundland Canada A1N 5E7
Tel +7097540400; Fax: +7097540419
E-mail: apower@icanmarine.com
www.icanmarine.com
CEO: Neil Chaulk
ICAN was established in November
1996 by Neil Chaulk. Neil, a profes-
sional engineer, had been working
with the Canadian Coast Guard
when he conceived of a company that
could provide Differential GPS
(DGPS) consulting to other coun-
tries.
Today, ICAN employs 35 in three
Canadian provinces and two U.S.
states and has a minority shareholder
in The Netherlands.
IXSEA
500 W. Cummings Park
Suite 100 Woburn, MA 01801
Tel: +49 69 247 06953; Fax: +49 69 247 06953
Email: arne.hoof@ixsea.com
URL : www.ixsea.com/en
IXSEA offers solutions in the scien-
tific, offshore and defense markets
for: navigation and positioning,
imagery, moorings, and survey.
IXSEA has 3 industrial sites in France
as well as a global sales network in
Europe, America and Asia. It cur-
rently employs 180 people, with
more than 50 PHD graduates and
engineers concentrating solely on
research and development. IXSEA
offers a broad and unique range of
complementary systems and solu-
tions built on key technologies like,
FOG (Fiber Optic Gyroscope) tech-
nology, Underwater acoustics, and
Seismic, sonar and magnetometer
imagery solutions.
Technology Profile: IXSEA works
in five main market segments:
Navigation and positioning, Imagery,
Moorings, Survey, and Space. Its
Fiber Optic Gyroscope (FOG) tech-
nology is at the heart of its
Gyrocompasses and Inertial
Navigation Systems. IXSEA is at the
center of the data fusion revolution:
by merging Inertial Navigation
Systems (INS) and Global Acoustic
Positioning Systems (GAPS, IXSEA's
USBL), IXSEA strives to provide
accurate and robust subsea position-
ing, where all data is fused into opti-
mal solutions.
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