The oceans cover more than half of the earth's surface. Their depths are filled with an unlimited variety of things we are interested in detecting, measuring, interpreting, analyzing, modeling, exploiting, and preserving.
The Ocean Survey Systems Integration and Development Division makes the tools needed for collecting ocean information. We develop complete survey suites, install them aboard oceanographic ships, and support them throughout their operational life.
We have a long history of successfully outfitting survey ships with navigation, sonar, oceanographic sensors, instrumentation, and computers for processing, displaying, and recording ocean information. Our expertise is founded on our thirty-five year history of providing the Navy with survey systems for its premier oceanographic survey fleet.
Over the long course, we have managed a continuing evolutionary growth to keep pace with rapidly advancing and emerging technologies, incorporating into our systems . . . advances like -
These components are networked into integrated systems and rounded out with a wide range of support services, for example -
Our direct support and monitoring of survey operations has enabled us to formulate an integrated system of hardware and software, data-processing algorithms, and operating techniques aimed at maximizing survey performance in terms of
And our technology base, cultivated in Cold War programs, is now being applied to hydrographic, oceanographic, and bathymetric, survey systems for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the U.S. Coast Guard, the Army Corps of Engineers, and foreign navies.
This all adds up to survey systems that work – accurately, effectively, reliably, economically, and productively. Systems that are adaptable to new mission requirements as they evolve. Survey systems that perform their survey missions.