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Not only does the IWA increase the range of our best-in-class winches, but it also sets new standards for ease of use, safety, power, compactness, and durability.

Featuring an intuitive touchscreen interface, all winch settings and system diagnostics are shown and controlled through the weatherproof membrane touchscreen. The interface user-friendly, and the digital control and programming of the IWA provides the operator with better control and unique safety features, including the following settings:

• Maximum speed control of the winchIWA winch touch-screen display
• Wireline acceleration safeguard
• Depth alarms and automatic winch braking
• Adjustable tension shut-off limits
• Level-wind calibration
• System diagnostics
• PC interface to permit remote support and control

On top of its intelligence, the IWA is also brawny. This winch has a 6 HP servo motor that can operate at speeds over 55 meters/minute (180 feet/min) and lift the heaviest tool stack with ease. Being the strongest winch in its class doesn’t mean the IWA is bulky and cumbersome. The IWA has a very small footprint. The completely redesigned level-wind assembly keeps the winch footprint at just 1.1 x 0.9 x 0.8 meters (45 x 37 x 32 inches), only slightly larger than our 2 HP WFA winch.

Geomatrix Earth Science are delighted to anouse the delivery of a 32 channel GeoEel™ Solid Digital Streamer, a state-of-the-art marine seismograph, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to outfit the newly-built RRS Sir David Attenborough.

The RRS Sir David Attenborough is a Polar-class 4 research vessel intended for marine and oceanographic research in the polar regions of the world. The BAS and NERC intends to fully equip the Sir David Attenborough with the most advanced research equipment available, from remote-controlled submersibles to advanced weather monitoring equipment. The GeoEel Streamer is one of the most advanced digital marine seismographs available today, and will be a great addition to the other research capabilities of the Sir David Attenborough.

With the GeoEel, the British Antarctic Survey will perform seismic reflection profiling, which enables imaging of geological structure and strata beneath the seafloor, on multi-disciplinary cruises. Such data provide immense added value to many geoscientific and paleoenvironmental studies and can also be used in informing the interpretation of other data sets such as swath bathymetry, sub-bottom profiles and sediment cores.

Seismic reflection profiling on multidisciplinary cruises, which enables imaging of geological structure and configurations of sedimentary strata to sub-seafloor depths of >1 km. Such data provide immense added value to many geoscientific and palaeoenvironmental studies, and are of great help in informing the interpretation of other datasets, such as swath bathymetry, acoustic sub-bottom profiles and sediment cores.

At SAGEEP 2018 Geonics announced the release of a new range of metal detectors designed for UXO detection in channelling environments. The new Flex range of time domain EM sensors is tailored towards improving productivity through the deployment of multi receiver coil arrays. The Flex systems are targeted toward different survey scales;

The EM61-BLU26 consists of 4 0.5x0.5m receiver coils, in a linear array, and a flexible 2.25x0.45m transmitter coil. The system is modular and can be configured with 2 receiver coils and a 1.13x0.45m transmitter coil in constrained environments. The adoption of smaller receiver coils increases spatial resolution enhancing the detection of small shallow objects; whilst maintaining a large transmitter coil area ensures sufficient magnetic moment potential for resolving deeper objects.

The EM61-LX2 is a two channel variant supplied with the two 1mx0.5m receiver coils. Both systems measure and record the decaying magnetic field on each receiver coil at two time gates. A third calculated value is also recorded for each channel, which has been subjected to a proprietary algorithm which removes the influence of magnetic soils and rock materials.

The EM63-Flex is specifically designed for efficient large open area surveying. The system consists of four 1mx0.5m receiver coils and one transmitter coil which encircles the receiver coils. Deploying an array like this is nothing new; customers have been deploying 3 time synchronised EM61MK2 for large area surveys for many years. However the EM63-Flex offers 26 time gates per channel and is capable of recording 15 full records per second offering much greater fidelity than was previously achievable.

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Geomatrix Earth Science Ltd have been appointed the UK sales agent for Oceanic Imaging Consultants Inc. To mark this news we are offering a special show discount on all OIC software.

SAMM is a Stand Alone Mosaicking Module designed to run alongside existing manufacturers data acquisition programs to enhance survey capability by proving real-time mosaicking, georeferenced charts, satellite imagery overlays and geo-coded observation classification.

CleanSweep provides a powerful processing platform for hydrographic survey data management, processing and analysis. Multibeam, Side Scan, Forward Look and Interferometric datasets can all be processing in one work space.

GeoDAS is a comprehensive data acquisition package for conducting hydrographic surveys. Capable of interfacing with market leading hydrographic equipment GeoDAS offers a wide variety of real-time correction tools and cartographic functions.

The ATOM introduces a new style of seismograph to the Geometrics Inc range. As a stand-a-lone seismograph each Acquisition Unit (AU) is a complete recording system providing total flexibility over the number of data acquisition channels. Containing an internal battery, high accuracy GPS clock and 4 GB memory the ATOM can be deployed for up to 70 hours of continual data acquisition before recharge. For longer monitoring projects the addition of a small 5V solar panel permits data acquisition to be extended to up to 23 days with the 4GB standard internal memory; or 186 days with the optional 32GB extended memory.

No compromises have been made in terms of the performance of the system; offering up to 0.25ms sample rate the bandwidth of the system is 1.5kHz to 1650kHz with 128dB 24bit dynamic range.

Operating the instrument couldn’t be easier. Users turn the boxes on by shaking them. The box will automatically begin recording as soon as it achieves GPS lock. LEDs inform the operator of the battery status, network state, GPS time lock and geophone connection. Data is retrievable via WiFi and a laptop.

When combined with the semi-automatous SeisImager Passive Wave processing software the system is ideally suited for obtaining shear wave velocity measurements to depth up to 1km.

Compatible with any standard geophone the ATOM offers flexibility where many other similar systems don’t. A version of the ATOM with 3 measurement channels will soon hit the market; changing the face of how shallow 3 component data acquisition for geological engineering is conducted.

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