Marine Technology Reporter, July 2007

<BODY> <div> 24 MTR July 2007 MTR100MTR100MTR100MTR100MTR100MTR100 Kongsberg Maritime AS Subsea Division P.O. Box 111, N-3191 Horten, Norway Tel: +47 33 03 4100 Fax: +47 33 04 4753 Email: subsea@kongsberg.com www.kongsberg.com Konsberg Maritime AS uses under- water positioning and navigation, including the industry standard of HPR and HiPAP systems and inertial navigation through Hydroacoustic Aided Inertial Naviagation, the HAIN systems. Transponders for any water dept and any of the LBL, SBL, SSBL or combined principles. Acoustic telemetry vertical and hori- zontal, up to 15 km. Acoustic BOP emergency control. Hydrographic precision echo sounders of single beam and multibeam types, for sur- face ship, ROV, towed and AUV applications are a part of Konsberg'a main technologies. Hydrographic data processing software and integrat- ed instrumentation systems also play vital roles for Konsberg. Active sonars for antisubmarine warfare, obstacle avoidance and mine detec- tion and classification are the goals of Konsberg Maritime's products. Many of the company's products are spe- cially designed for Littoral Warfare and brown water operations. Technology Profile: Kongsberg Maritime has developed good solu- tions for producing integrated sensor systems, which will function smooth- ly without mutual interference prob- lems, and which distribute data and images efficiently over a ship data network. Complete instrumentation and data processing systems are offered which use sensors and offer the highest flexibility, productivity and data security. Kongsberg can pro- vide instrumentation solutions for hydrographic mapping which are adaptable to most user requirements, based upon its broad range of multi- beam and single beam echo sounders. Real time data processing and visual- ization software gives the surveyors immediate information about the progress of work and the quality of the data that is being collected. Autonomous underwater vehicles are being used increasingly as a supple- ment to surface ships, for a number of different data collection tasks. For seabed mapping or inspection pur- poses they can bring the sensors clos- er to the seabed and thus obtain a more detailed result. Mine detection and classification can be carried out without any risk for human life. Kongsberg is one of the pioneers in this field, and can supply well proven and reliable turnkey systems as well as instruments, accurate underwater positioning, data collection and con- trol modules. Accurate positioning under water is a key issue for all applications of ROV's, so Kongsberg Maritime offers a number of high quality solutions for positioning of ROV's, and also acoustic and optical instrumentation to be used by ROV's. HiPAP MTR#6 (17-32).qxd 7/13/2007 9:57 AM Page 24 </div> <span id="lblContents"></span> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.digitalwavepublishing.com/" title="Digital Magazine">Digital Wave Publishing</a> </BODY>