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C-Worker 5 in Alaskan charting survey

23rd August 2018 - 12:30 GMT | by Shephard News Team

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ASV Global, together with TerraSond, has successful completed a hydrographic survey using the C-Worker 5 USV off the coast of Alaska, the company announced on 21 August.

The 10,649km survey was carried out alongside TerraSond's survey ship acting as the mother vessel. Fitted with a multibeam echosounder, the C-Worker 5 USV carried out 53% of the survey.

Throughout the operation, the C-Worker 5 was remotely monitored using ASV Global’s ASView control system from a station on the mother ship. ASView exported .dxf survey lines from the TerraSond survey planning system to autonomously execute an accurate survey with minimal human intervention.

The operation marks ASV Global and TerraSond’s fourth unmanned charting survey for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Andrew Orthmann, charting programme manager, TerraSond, said: ‘The ASV C-Worker 5 was once again advantageous to our charting work for NOAA along a remote stretch of Aleutian Islands coastline.

‘It was productive in an offshore capacity, but also effective when working close to rugged, rocky shoreline with an abundance of uncharted navigational hazards. It allowed us to reduce risk to our personnel while still obtaining the seafloor data important to our client.’

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