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July 4, 2012
The Sub-Bottom ImagerTM (SBI)
AUV Deployment
Vessel Deployment
ROV Deployment
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Competitive Comparison
3D Seabed Imaging
Industry Pull to Accurately Survey Buried Infrastructure (SBI)
Seabed Image
• Unreliable performance
• Limited to 1.5m depth HVDC Cable Buried Cannons
• Requires de-energized cable
• Magnetic signature only • 3D image – full swath • High-resolution imaging
• Up to 5m sub-seabed • Reliable performance
• Measures energized • Images by acoustic
cables contrast - all materials
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SBI Commercial Track Record
Recent Projects:
• NorNed Cable Survey for Tennet (with
DOF)
- Southern 220km of HVDC cable Test Survey
2010 (Statnet)
- Both single and dual core cable
• Baltic 1 Export Cable for 50Hz (with 13 cm 5 Inch
Boskalis Hirdes)
- Shallow section (3m to 11m DBS)
- Deep section (11m to 45m) 23 cm 9 inch
Commercial Work
2012 • Shallow Water
Commercial Work 2011 • HVDC Cable Survey
Commercial Work
2011 • Archaeological Mosaic Survey
Commercial Work
2011 • Decommissioning Area Survey
2010 • Demonstration on HVDC Cables
2009 • Prototype Demonstration on Pipelines
2008 • Proof of Concept verification
2008 • Vehicle Noise Studies
2008 • Physics and concept definition
Sub-Bottom Imager: Operating Statistics
Direction of Advance
focus-on-reception
SAS
broad swath illumination
Conventional beam former
Sub-Bottom Imager® Beamforming And Steering
Parametric Source
INS
Hydrophone Array
Chirp Transmitters
2.3 m
3.5 m
Data integration
MBE Seabed
model
Experience 2011 NorNed
Data integration
MBE Seabed
model
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Manually
picked Cable
position
Experience 2011 NorNed
Data integration
MBE Seabed
model
+
Manually
picked Cable
position
+
Pipe burial
calculated
Experience 2011 NorNed
Data integration
MBE Seabed
model
+
Manually picked
Cable position
+
Pipe burial
calculated
+
Add rendered
SBI
Experience 2011 NorNed
Data integration
MBE Seabed
model
+
Manually picked
Cable position
+
Pipe burial
calculated
+
Add rendered
SBI
+
Count and
above seabed
filtering
Experience 2011 NorNed
Data integration
MBE Seabed
model
+
Manually picked
Cable position
+
Pipe burial
calculated
+
Add rendered
SBI
+
Count and
above seabed
filtering
+
Horizontal slize
=> QC of
manually picked
data.
Cable burial depth variation over geo anomaly
1.5 m 2m
100 m
Cable as it
traverses
shallow burial
arc
Structure in
lower layers
DBS ~1 m
SBI Cable Survey Data showing Boulder
Discrete object
near cable
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SBI Cable Survey Data showing Boulders
Many discrete
objects on cable
route (cable not
visible at this depth)
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SBI Cable Survey Data showing Hard Layers
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SBI Cable Survey Data showing Small Object
Discrete object
near cable
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SBI Data Integrated with Navimodel
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Ship Wreck: Expanded Buried Debris Field
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Sub-Bottom Image: Future Plans
Artist conception:
ISE Explorer AUV
with Sub-Bottom
Imager hydrophone
array in wing mount
Investment, Support & Acknowledgement
, DEMO 2000
Institute for Ocean Technology