Keep sensors at the sweet spot

… with the robust, stable ScanFish ROTV platform’s 3D steering capability keeping your ROTV at a fixed height from the seafloor – this trusted ROTV is used for UXO surveys around the world

Easy mobilisation and maintenance

… thanks to a total weight of 220 kg in air. This solution uses proven components that can be easily maintained.

Training opportunities

… through existing training programmes EIVA provides for the community of existing users, such as ScanFish operator courses

Afford stunningly accurate visualisations

… since unlike towed Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) systems, Equinox offers an affordable lower-logistics alternative still capable of providing high area coverage rates

Accurate geo-referencing

… by combining leading navigation and positioning using Sonardyne’s Mini-Ranger 2 USBL and SPRINT INS, imaging data is geo-referenced with an accuracy that’s unrivalled for these types of applications at this price

Easy survey planning

… by using NaviSuite Kuda software to define your sailing route and runlines – which is as simple as selecting the area you would like to survey

Review data while it is being gathered (so it can be used in the next stage of the survey)

… by monitoring NaviSuite Kuda’s real-time data displays during operations – the software continuously updates the vessel and ScanFish 3D position data, as well as processing and visualising Solstice data

Visualise and analyse data

… with real-time geo-rectified waterfalls, mosaics and DTM maps – as well as user interface tools to mark and process objects, including automatic target recognition (ATR) using AI

Significant payload capacity

… with the large capacity of the ScanFish ROTV, as well as room in the fibre cable to include additional payload sensors such as gap fillers

Optional extras – according to daily rates

ScanFish & NaviSuite mobilisation support & onsite training

Solstice mobilisation support & onsite training

Extra subsea MUX for ScanFish
incl cables

Mini-Ranger 2 with WSM 6+ and charger

The practical design of the ScanFish models makes them so robust that they can be deployed in rough weather. This saves time as the risk of downtime is vastly reduced. Two side plates with bars, which also function as handles, protect the body and facilitate handling, thus reducing the risks posed to the ROTV in the water and ensuring the safety of the crew during deployment and recovery.

Automatic survey route planning tools

Ensure efficient coverage during surveys with tools for survey route planning. These intuitive tools help ensure your survey is performed optimally – through highly customisable and automated route planning.

Onboard automatic route planning during surveys

Conditions such as the weather can influence your coverage during a survey. In order to adapt to such factors, you can use the Coverage Assist tool, which plans runlines in real-time during the survey. Each time it creates a runline, it considers the previous surveyed line, as well as the optimal route for turning. This saves you time as it makes decisions onboard the vessel in real-time.

Autopilot route planning by defining a boundary

The vehicle route can be automatically created before a survey, based on a boundary. If your vessel has an NMEA autopilot, you can export route plans from NaviSuite to the onboard piloting system.

You can design the lawn mower type pattern depending on the desired spacing and orientation. You can also create an exclusion zone within the boundary.

Autopilot total solution for safe and optimised surveys

To ensure centimetre precision line-keeping and safer operations, you can equip your vessel with the NaviSuite Kuda – Autopilot. This autopilot enables extensive USV control in NaviSuite Kuda, for example precise line-keeping in sharp turns and a hold position capability, as well as allowing you to monitor your thrusters and easily switch between manual and automated steering.

In addition, this total solution provides many precise vehicle control features. Users can for example increase safety of autopilot operations – by defining emergency stop settings, as well as quickly taking manual control. Users can also improve the quality of data by adjusting the vehicle’s speed (while the survey is running on autopilot) if real-time collected data shows that the speed should be changed, for example decreasing the speed due to seeing holes in the real-time QC displays of collected data.

Remote control from anywhere in the world

NaviSuite software enables you to operate control systems from anywhere in the world.

Remote control even at low bandwidth

One of the challenges to remote control is low data bandwidth. With NaviSuite you can overcome this in several ways…

Live data compression

You can compress survey data in many ways to ensure uninterrupted signal. NaviSuite compression tools work on multi-beam echosounder, sidescan, laser and forward-looking sonar data.

The settings you can adjust include Along, which allows you to skip scans. As well as Across, which reduces the points across the scan, and analyses points with respect to depth change to then keep more points where there are areas of change.

Pre-plan autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) operations

NaviSuite lets you remotely control an AUV without requiring constant connection. You can send small mission updates to your AUV, requiring only one good link moment to input your instructions – for example to go at a certain depth, pitch and heading. This capability means that no matter if the connection fails, the AUV will follow the directions you input in your latest mission update.