Lowering SCINI Through the Ice
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PILOT™: Precision Seafloor Surveying Made Easy
Over the years, our PILOT™ acoustic positioning system has grown into an increasingly powerful yet efficient underwater survey tool. Originally intended as a basic ROV tracking system, more and more customers have instead used it as a precision survey tool that is compact, quickly deployed and most importantly precise. The 'secret' is it's short baseline (SBL) design, a technology that like a USBL system does not require sea floor reference stations, but can approach the accuracy and robustness of long baseline (LBL) survey systems.
In 2007 PILOT™ was first installed on the SCINI ROV, the Submersible Capable of under Ice Navigation and Imaging, which later found its way to the frigid arctic waters of Antarctica. It was an exploratory job, but PILOT proved that it can guide SCINI with sub-meter precision under the ice.
And so, when The Moss Landing Marine Lab's team was preparing for another 'routine' trip to Antarctica in late 2008 they asked Desert Star to send one of our own into the bitter cold temps and even colder waters. Needless to say, CEO and resident adventurer Marco Flagg was shipped out in October for two months.
Once more, PILOT™ was used on numerous deployments 'under the ice', ultimately allowing SCINI to establish a thorough record of exploration at exotic sites including under ice bergs at Cape Evans and deep under the Ross Ice Shelf at Heald Island.
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SCINI only added to the PILOT™ list of achievements, which include among many other jobs use a a navigation 'gold standard' for the evaluation of Navy positioning systems and the sub-meter accuracy survey of hundreds of kilometers of pipeline in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. The latest use of PILOT™ is with Florida State University's Underwater Crime Scene Investigation program...
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