Gavia Performing Seabed Survey

NCS Survey currently operate two Teledyne Gavia Offshore Surveyor AUVs from
their headquarters in Aberdeen. Rated to 500m and 1,000m respectively, each
of these low logistics vehicles have a payload of colour camera, side scan
sonar (SSS), multi-beam echosounder (MBES), inertial navigation system
(INS), Doppler velocity log (DVL), obstacle avoidance sonar, DGPS and
iridium satellite phone. They are able to perform peform a variety of tasks
including pipeline inspection, both acoustically and visually and seabed
mapping. They are particularly beneficial in restricted areas having
already performed surveys in close proximity to oil & gas field platforms
and even under a jack-up drilling rig. Clients to date include oil & gas
majors such as BP, Shell and Total, with operations in the North Sea of the
UK, the US Gulf of Mexico and even as far afield as Argentina.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• AUV
• Gavia
• NCS
• Survey
• Hydrographic
• Subsea
• Bathymetry
• MBES
• multibeam
• sonar