Geodesea and Picotech combined to offer us a bespoke unit and superb support, from ordering to delivery and testing. The equipment will underpin our world-leading research and teaching which seeks to better understand environmental change in these complex systems. Video from the on-board camera is recorded in a digital format, with the surveyor following position information from the Hypack navigational software. Integration of one of our VLP-16 puck Lidar units on the vessel will further enhance our capabilities and allow coincident above and below water monitoring. The offsets of the vehicle as calculated by Hypack, is fed to the navigation computer that plots a corresponding XY position based on Real Time Kinematics (RTK) information from the GPS.
HYPACK AUTOPILOT SETUP SOFTWARE
The University of Southampton is the latest UK university to adopt BeamworX as part of its software portfolio for undertaking research and educating the next generation of multibeam users!ĭr Julian Leyland, Associate Professor in the School of Geography and Environmental Science, and director of ( ) said “The PicoCAT and PicoPod setup offer us a unique capability for autonomous survey in riverine and coastal settings. But together they form a powerful toolkit for for acquiring, calibrating and (re)processing Multibeam Echosounder Data. Supported by industry standard acquisition and processing software, BeamworX®, EIVA NaviSuite®, Xylem HYPACK®, Teledyne PDS® and QPS QINSy®.īeamworX software (NavAQ/AutoPatch/AutoClean) is bundled into a single suite each program can work completely stand-alone due to the flexible imports and exports. PicoPOD has a simple mechanical interface and free open-source autopilot. PicoPOD is a turnkey multibeam package to power-up your existing USV for autonomous multibeam surveys. Geodesea Ltd is proud to announce the delivery of a Picotech Ltd PicoCAT USV with PicoPod Multibeam sonar payload (Pico MB-130, integrated Applanix POSMV SurfMaster, PC & AutoPilot) to the Environmental Sensing Southampton facility at the University of Southampton.