Minimize the Need to Coordinate Diving Personnel
Underwater inspections are essential to safely operating and maintaining the health of power generating stations. Unfortunately, even with the most experienced diving team, inherent safety risks involved in traditional underwater inspection methods exist. Our High Resolution Sonar System (HRSS) solution provides valuable sub-surface insights for silt depth measurements and underwater diving activities. Our expert team deploys underwater ROVs equipped with sonar multibeam imaging sensors to collect data with ease and accuracy.
Silt Mapping
Eliminate routine diver missions to determine silt conditions in an effort to aid facility owners inproper forecasting work schedules and ongoing O&M costs with the Clearsight High Resolution Sonar System (HRSS). Our HRSS solution provides valuable sub-surface insights for silt depth measurements and underwater diving activities. Our technology also supports silt depth classification for trending purposes, such as planned and coordinated silt removal, and provides visual evidence that silt removal projects are satisfactorily completed.
Diver Overwatch
Early identification of thermal radiation anomalies are valuable for preventing future issues. Our experts employ-cutting edge drone and thermal sensor technology to safely and efficiently capture inspection data in an effort to:
- Avoid costly system outages with our inspections.
- Protect personnel from temperature-sensitive inspections with increased drone range
- Overcome visual obstacles, like dense vegetation, with our hi-res thermal imaging capabilities
Sonar FAQ
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What are some of the advantages of using multibeam sonar?
Multibeam sonar offers considerable advantages over conventional systems including increased resolution of data, inspection-level detail of underwater components and surfaces, confidence that all features and hazards are mapped without voids, and more effective capture of backscatter data. -
How does multibeam sonar work?
Multibeam sonar systems work by transmitting multiple, simultaneous sound pulses, or “pings,” through a transmitter at specific frequencies and then receiving those same pulses through a receiver placed very close to the transmitter. -
What is a sonar survey?
Sonar is a method of surveying underwater environments. A sensor emits a sound pulse that bounces off an object in its path and returns to the sensor providing a measurement. These measurements can be used to calculate depths and distances between underwater components and areas for the purpose of improving domain awareness of those areas. -
How do you survey underwater?
To survey underwater, we leverage remote technology in the form of pole-mounted units, or remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs), which can capture visual, sonar, ultrasonic thickness (UT), and other types of data for analysis. We interpret the collected data to identify adverse conditions. -
What is the difference between single-beam and multibeam sonar?
Single-beam sonar uses a single transducer to transmit and receive pings. Multibeam sonar uses a few transducers to send out multiple sonar beams simultaneously in a fan-shaped pattern. The fan-shaped pattern provides more coverage and a higher resolution. Single-beam sonar can capture backscatter data, which is the measurement of the intensity of the sound echo that reflects to the transducer.
Superior Insights for Underwater Inspections
Improve the safety and cost-efficiency of your underwater inspections with the Clearsight High Resolution Sonar System. Our comprehensive visual inspection solution includes the use of remotely operated underwater vehicles designed for safe, comprehensive and customizable inspections that will help to:
- Improve the inspection data quality, cost-efficiency and safety
- Better inform decision making and
- Obtain unmatched inspection insights
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Our team of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) coordinate and provide a detailed plan for every mission.
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The Clearsight inspection team deploys the most effective data-collecting technology to gather insights.
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Data is securely uploaded and analyzed by SMEs. Reports are electronically produced, complete with prioritized findings.
