packages used today, making them a drop in replacement or augment for traditional bathymetry systems. BlueView is currently working with Photon Factory LLC on an underwater line scanning software package specifically designed for high resolution 3D rendering of underwater structures. BlueView’s new 13,120-foot (4,000m) rated version of its proven acoustic underwater vision systems, the DP900-90, is a direct response to requests from the oil and gas industry for a BlueView sonar that can provide underwater vision solutions for deep operations. In addition to the new depth rating, the DP900-90 has a 90 degree imaging field of view, twice that of systems currently available. The significantly larger field-of-view provides ROV operators with a dramatic improvement in low visibility navigation and operations. The system is available with either an Impulse MSSJ or a Schilling SeaNet connector, making integration onto most work-class ROVs a quick operation. As with all of BlueView’s products, the DP900-90 is small enough to mount with the ROV’s main camera system, providing ROV operators with seamless low visibility operation capabilities. Located in Seattle Washington, BlueView Technologies manufactures both 2D and 3D miniature multibeam sonar so-
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lutions. BlueView delivers mission-critical, real-time underwater vision for Navy, Coast Guard, Law Enforcement, and Oil & Gas applications. Visit www.blueviewtech.com. CARIS Caris, along with EDS and LSC Group, announced the final acceptance by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) of the Hydrographic Database (HDB) Project. Through the HDB Project, EDS and Caris have delivered workflow management technologies from EDS together with Caris Bathy DataBASE and Caris Hydrographic Production Database (HPD) software to manage and create paper and electronic chart products. This combined solution will represent an enterprise production environment where multiple products are created and updated from a centrally managed source. The bid phase for the project began in November of 2004 and was awarded to EDS and Caris in October 2006, as a result of a competitive demonstrator phase. “The successful acceptance of the system concludes an important development program for our team,” said Sara Cockburn, Manager of the Special Projects Group at Caris. “We are very proud of this outcome and are delighted with the success of the system as a whole. It allows Caris to
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continue to demonstrate its competence and reliability as a partner, not only in the delivery of production-ready solutions, but in the implementation of systems delivered for specialized hydrographic processes.” “I have been delighted with the positive way the UKHO, EDS, Caris and LSC project teams have worked together over several years to achieve a significant outcome. I believe that the CARIS HPD product lies at the heart of this success,” says Simon Baldwin, UKHO Project Manager. Using the new system, data is stored in a common database and shared by products, providing a higher degree of consistency between product types. This unique workfloworiented and database-driven approach to data management and production will bring significant business benefits to the UKHO in production optimization and efficiency. Established in 1979, Caris is a leading developer of geospatial software. Their Ping-to-Chart product line delivers integrated software solutions for the entire workflow of hydrographic information from the echosounder “ping” through to the production and distribution of the “chart”. Caris products are used by hydrographic offices, military agencies, survey contractors, ports and harbors, municipalities, land administrators and academia, among others. In addition to its Canadian headquarters, CARIS
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