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Top 10 Most Read OST Articles of 2024

Take a look at OST's round-up of the ten most-read articles of the year, delving into product releases and new achievements throughout the maritime industry

Dec 31, 2024
Profile Spotlight: Yellowscan & Bathymetric LiDAR Scanning

OST is helping Yellowscan to showcase its innovative LiDAR scanning solutions for professional 3D mapping and surveying applications in marine and maritime industries

Dec 13, 2024
Profile Spotlight: Inertial Labs’ Position, Navigation, & Motion Tracking Systems

Inertial Labs has been working with OST to showcase its high-performance, low-swap inertial sensing-based technologies, designed for maritime vessels and platforms

Dec 11, 2024
Profile Spotlight: Airmar’s Ultrasonic Weather Stations

Airmar has been working with OST to showcase not only its innovative ultrasonic weather stations, but also its acoustic sensing solutions for a range of marine and offshore industries

Nov 25, 2024
Profile Spotlight: Wavefront Systems’ Sonar for Subsea Detection, Imaging, & Monitoring

Wavefront has been working with OST to showcase how it solves the problems of underwater detection, imaging and navigation using advanced sonar technologies

Nov 21, 2024
Profile Spotlight: FarSounder & Forward-Looking Sonars

OST has been showcasing FarSounder’s forward looking sonars, advanced systems that can generate real-time 3D hazard detection images of the environment ahead of vessels

Nov 20, 2024
Subsea Laser Scanner Captures 3D Reconstruction of Endurance Wreck

Voyis’ Insight Pro laser scanner and Observer Pro imaging system have enabled a 3D digital scan and reconstruction of the Antarctic wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance

Oct 16, 2024
Partnership to Accelerate Marine Scientific Innovation & Discovery

Greensea IQ and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have partnered to develop future vehicles and technologies supporting scientific research across ocean environments

Oct 03, 2024
Profile Spotlight: SatLab Geosolutions’ Surveying, Positioning, & Sensing Technology

OST has been aiding SatLab Geosolutions in showcasing its advanced and innovative products, based on cutting-edge GNSS, sonar and USV technologies with a focus on R&D

Sep 25, 2024
Innovative Partnership to Complete Global Ocean Mapping

Exail has signed an MoU with the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project to enhance global ocean mapping efforts, and will contribute valuable bathymetric data using its innovative technologies

Sep 24, 2024
Hydrographic Survey Solution For UK MoD Passes FAT

The new containerised solution enables hydrographic surveys with multiple acoustic survey sensors and instruments to be performed from many different host platforms with very short deployment time

Aug 23, 2024
Autonomous USV to Survey Cayman Islands’ Seafloor

Saildrone is set to map the Cayman Islands’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), covering 29,300 square nautical miles with its autonomous Surveyor USV to interpret the region’s seafloor topography

Aug 21, 2024
Partnership for Long-Range Bathymetric Water Survey Technology

The integration of YellowScan’s Navigator bathymetric system into Xer Technologies’ drones offers a solution for long-range bathymetric surveys and underwater topography mapping

Aug 15, 2024
Collaboration to Develop AUV Swarms for Subsea Exploration

Under the CARMA project, Exail, RTsys, and ABYSSA are set to develop an AUV swarming solution for efficient ocean floor mapping and subsea surveying

Jul 10, 2024
Transoceanic USV Completes First Sea Trials

Exail has conducted the first sea trials for its new transoceanic USV, the DriX O-16, designed for long-duration operations and able to deploy multiple payloads and subsea assets

Jun 07, 2024
USVs to Continue Gulf of Maine Seafloor Mapping

Two Saildrone uncrewed surface vessels will be gathering accurate ocean depths and seafloor topography in the Gulf of Maine to aid navigation, telecommunications, and more

May 31, 2024
New Unmanned Surveying Technology from SatLab

SatLab has introduced the HydroBoat 1500 USV, a surveying vessel offering impressive autonomous operation capabilities and reliability for maximized surveying potential

May 29, 2024
Game-Changing Seagrass Mapping Technologies Receive Funding

USS, GeoAcoustics, and ACUA have secured DEFRA backing to improve marine biodiversity monitoring using a carbon neutral USV and the GeoSwath 4 bathymetric sonar

Apr 12, 2024
3D Shipwreck Model Built with AUV Imagery

Using the Hydrus AUV to capture geo-referenced imagery from Rottnest ship graveyard, Advanced Navigation worked with Curtin University HIVE and the WA Museum to curate and display a high-resolution replica of a 100-year-old shipwreck

Apr 04, 2024