“We were awarded the contract for this last fall. The new boats are 25-foot aluminum catamarans with 10-foot booms that provide a 25-foot sweep width with six transducers.Īdditional survey capability will be provided by a R2Sonic multibeam systems, which will be installed by the district when the boats are delivered. The boats being replaced are 34-foot twin-hull work boats with 20-foot transducer beams that provide a 50-foot sweep width. He continued: “The survey vessels will replace two survey vessels purchased through Ross Labs in 2002. The boats being replaced have served us well but are now past their intended service life and major drive-line and other components need to be replaced. We are also downsizing the new vessels to allow us to trailer each vessel, thereby improving our response time to vessel groundings and other channel emergencies along the approximately 300 miles of each river within Rock Island District.” Jon Klingman, chief of the Rock Island District Channel Maintenance Section said, “The boats will be utilized primarily for hydrographic survey in support of the dredging and navigation missions on both the Illinois and Mississippi rivers.” The boats will replace two similar systems Ross delivered to Rock Island in 20 for survey work on the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. For additional information about the HYCAT visit here.On February 16, Ross Labs, LLC of Edmonds, Washington, received the first of two boats it is providing to the Rock Island Corps of Engineer District and has begun installing the hydrographic survey hardware and software. In addition, EXO2 sensors were utilized for water quality studies. Other surveys utilized the side scan sonar for search and rescue and the EXO2 sonde for sediment transport. HYCAT performed a pipeline survey in international waters providing bathymetric data, side scan sonar data, and water column velocity studies in a high current environment. Since its launch, HYCAT has been demonstrated at numerous trade shows and demonstrations, as well as completing a variety of commercial surveys.
HYPACK CHANGE DRAFT SOFTWARE
A single consolidated software interface has been developed by SeaRobotics and HYPACK making this small ASV the most fully integrated ASV on the market.
HYPACK CHANGE DRAFT FULL
HYCAT is equipped with a full complement of hydrographic sensors including the SonTek M9, YSI EXO2 Multiparameter Sonde, Hemisphere AtlasLink RTK GNSS, HYPACK Max onboard data acquisition and processing software, an onboard Windows 10 Data Acquisition Computer, as well as an Imagenex Side Scan Sonar system. This is a product we and our strategic partners Xylem YSI, SonTek, & HYPACK are proud to offer,” further explained Geoff Douglass, ASV development manager at SeaRobotics. Our goal was to set the bar for safe, intuitive, autonomous survey systems. The end result is a leap forward for this technology and the hydrographic survey industry. “We funneled 18 years of multidisciplinary ASV design & development experience into HYCAT. “SeaRobotics is excited about the completion of HYCAT’s first production run and its partnership with Xylem and its broad range of sensor and software support companies,” stated Don Darling, president of SeaRobotics Corporation.
HYPACK CHANGE DRAFT PORTABLE
HYCAT’s small portable form factor and shallow draft allow deployment in the most challenging environments with minimal support. This unique ASV, offered by both Xylem and SeaRobotics, provides exceptional tools leading to an out of the box plug and play survey solution. SeaRobotics Corporation (SeaRobotics) today announced that it has completed the first production run of the HYCAT Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV) in partnership with Xylem, USA.