Training for New Generation of Survey Teams
New Tools for Digital Ocean Data Gathers for a 21st Century Navy
BlueZone Group has provided training on advanced Multi-Beam Echo Sounder (MBES) systems for the Royal Australian Navy Deployable Geospatial Support Team (DGST) members.
Advanced MBES primarily provide increases in system resolution. These advances are largely achieved by producing systems of smaller beamwidths and reduced pulse lengths. There has also been a complementary increase in the number of beams provided resulting in the tremendous increase in the quantity of soundings that can now be acquired. Older generations of MBES may have typically produced between 100 and 200 soundings per ping. Modern systems may produce up to 400 or 500 soundings for a single head. Systems operating in a dual-head configuration and with dual-swathe capability may produce more than 1500 soundings per ping.
DGST will deploy MBES and other environmental and survey sensors, together with mobile meteorological and oceanographic sensors to gather data from the ‘Digital Ocean’. The future of the Digital Ocean is a globally networked ocean connecting sensors, vessels, aircraft, satellites and unmanned systems. It will be a place where data is available on demand, around the clock, and data sets are rich and robust over time and space. Decision makers and operational organisations such as the RAN will be able to keep pace with a constantly changing threat environment. Navy missions such as protecting waters from illegal fishing, smuggling, and trafficking can be enabled by digital data from the ocean. Communications and data transmission systems to be operated by DGST will enable data to be available in real-time to operational commanders afloat and ashore.
The Royal Australian Navy’s hydrographic ships, aircraft and people chart more than one-eighth of the world’s surface, stretching as far west as Cocos Island in the Indian Ocean, east to the Solomon Islands, and from the Equator to the Antarctic. New tools, training and full in-country support offered by BlueZone Group will enable our future data gatherers to operate even more efficiently and effectively in a rapidly changing world.
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