Overview

The Echoscope^4G® C500 Surface, rated at 40 meteres, is the latest Surface variant of our 4th generation real-time 3D imaging sonar platform. Designed specifically with small USV use in mind, the Echoscope^4G C500 Surface builds on the advantages of our Compact range by offering the lightest, smallest and easiest to integrate real-time 3D sonar on the market today.

The 4G platform is delivered in a smaller, lighter housing which will for the first time give customers with smaller USVs the opportunity to integrate a real-time 3D imaging and mapping sonar. With the sonars unique capability to generate real-time 3D images around complex structures, this will enable inshore security inspection, asset integrity mapping and search and rescue operations to be quickly and effectively undertaken from the smallest of available platforms. 

The Echoscope^4G C500 Surface is supplied as a single dual-frequency or triple frequency model rated to 40 meters. In common with all of our real-time 3D sonars, the C500 Surface generates a complete 3D model composed of over 8,000 soundings from each acoustic transmission. This 3D model is entirely refreshed up to 20 times per second with each new transmission.

With sounding densities far in excess of those generated by other sonars, combined with the new increased 20Hz ping rate, the C500 presents unrivalled clarity of dynamic operations and moving objects in video-like data format in low visibility water conditions. All the Echoscope^4G range take advantage of patented statistical rendering techniques to further enhance the clarity of the image, presenting the user with an intuitive and easy-to-interpret image.

In mapping and inspection tasks, the ping geometry of the C500 will allow a target to be visualized many times in a single pass, with each view taken from a different angle. This allows complex subsea structures to be mapped with a level of confidence and detail for beyond anything than can be achieved using alternative methods.

Whether deployed on inland waterway works or large scale offshore projects, the Echoscope^4G C500 Surface real-time 3D sonar will provide clear imagery of the underwater environment.