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Infrastructure Inspection

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Underwater infrastructure can be many things. It can be a water inlet for a hydroacoustic power station in the Swiss Alps or the pilings of a wind turbine base in the North Sea.

A rusted yellow subsea pile being lowered into the water

Regardless of where the underwater infrastructure is though, the systems required to monitor it must be as accurate as they are cost-effective and dependable.

Utility companies, port authorities and offshore contractors can choose to either deploy a team of divers to manually inspect their infrastructure, or take a less hands on, but safer and more cost-effective approach by deploying Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) or Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) installed with bathymetric and side-scan sonar.

The GeoSwath 4 system, which can be deployed on surface vehicles (including uncrewed vessels), or underwater vehicles is used commonly in pre-survey mapping to define the areas of interest and also during inspections directly, due to its ability to provide side-scan sonar data.

While not a dedicated underwater inspection sonar, many customers experience that GeoSwath 4 can provide actionable data on i.e., scouring at the base of submerged structures which can lead to instabilities that need to be addressed.

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