PicoPOD systems are really getting about! As well as systems being at work in South Korea, Japan, the United States and Italy, they have also been busy in the UK. Geodesea took one of our demo systems for a spin at the Port of Dover, one of the world’s busiest passenger ports. Check out this neat video of the survey and its outcomes with the data processed by BeamworX.
The PicoMB120 is the first USV multibeam for production survey being used by NOAA (the US’s National Ocean and Atmostpheric Administration).
NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey have been using the system in areas like the Chesapeake Bay along the Eastern Shore of Maryland. You can find out more about their work here.
Our latest multibeam system, the PicoMB130, will be available in the coming weeks. We’re excited about Picotech products continuing to be chosen by the most well-respected survey agencies all over the world!
Image credit: NOAA
Our PicoPOD systems, featuring the PicoMB120, have been back out on the water, producing excellent images and data for users. The image on the right shows a flooded quarry in Somerset using PicoPOD mounted on a Hydrone, and below you can see results from a post-dredge survey of an aggregates quarry in the South of England.
We’re looking forward to showcasing more great survey results in 2020 as we roll out the PicoMB130 and the PicoCAT. Watch this space!
Our partners at Geodesea last week completed a multibeam sonar survey of an 0.48 square km reservoir using PicoPOD and the PicoPilot feature. Data clearly showed original water courses, areas of clay mined for the creation of the dams, and even ridge and furrow fields, none of which have been seen since the mid-1800’s. Watch below to see PicoPOD at work.
We recently took our PicoPOD to Bristol to test our latest autopilot updates. It was a beautiful clear late-autumn day and conditions were perfect for surveying a section of these historic docks. Check out the short film below!
Picotech Ltd are excited to announce their expansion into new premises just outside the historic town of Kingsbridge, Devon. Picotech Ltd will occupy a double unit at the recently-built Torr Trade Park on the Torr Quarry industrial estate.
The premises will allow Picotech Ltd to increase production in line with continued expansion of the business and will serve us well as our growth continues. The site sits near the foot of Dartmoor National Park and within easy reach of the Devon coast as well as the university cities of Plymouth and Exeter.
Suppliers and customers will be informed of our new contact details in forthcoming correspondence.
Picotech Ltd have successfully demonstrated autonomous multibeam surveys using PicoPOD. To enable autonomy, Picotech Ltd developed an autopilot named PicoPilot, which runs on PicoPODs onboard computer. PicoPilot is a MOOS-IvP application. The behaviour-based autonomy framework for unmanned vehicles, MOOS-IvP, was developed by MIT and the Oxford Robotics Institute.
PicoPilot is available now with PicoPOD. Future development will add features including depth-adaptive surveying.
Last week BeamworX announced they had just finished the NavAQ control interface for the PicoMB multibeam. It is available in BeamworX Suite 2019.3.
BeamworX is a software engineering and consultancy company located in The Netherlands, specialising in the Hydrographic Surveying and Offshore market. It’s great to have them onboard!
Picotech Ltd have launched the only Man-Portable Multibeam USV on the Market: PicoPOD
Read our latest press release to find out more!
Picotech Press Release 01082019
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