A leading developer of 3D forward looking sonars (FLS), FarSounder provides crucial situational awareness and navigation capabilities for a range of marine and maritime vessel types. Find out more >>
Products in the company’s Argos line of navigation sonars are all based around the same innovative 3D sonar technology, reducing a vessel’s risk of collision in challenging waters significantly by providing highly reliable obstacle and hazard detection, especially when compared to 2D technologies.
FarSounder’s Argos 350, 500, and 1000 models are designed for and proven on vessels used in environmental research, surveying, defense and government applications, fishing and commercial industries, and uncrewed or autonomous missions.
In the past year, FarSounder has been developing and implementing community sharing of crowdsourced bathymetry data to make a map of the world’s oceans, since humans know so little about the sea floor. Using the CSB Data Explorer, a dashboard created in conjunction with several other societies and foundations, users of FarSounder sonars can see their contributions to the global map.
The Argos sonars that collect the data — as well as aiding in obstacle avoidance — combine state-of-the-art acoustics, signal processing, and phased array sonar design. This creates a reliable solution that provides the entire image within a single ping, with an extremely fast update rate.
FarSounder sonars set themselves apart by overcoming the limitations faced by traditional 2D technologies unable to distinguish between the seafloor and dangerous in-water obstacles, which are also unable to easily compensate for roll and pitch, multipath interference, and surface effects.
The Argos sonars provide an easy-to-install solution that compensates for these issues and reliably detects hazards, obstacles and shallows at navigationally significant ranges.
Find out more on the FarSounder profile, or visit the company’s website.
