Equipment Rental
Swathe Services offers a range of high quality equipment for rental purposes. Our equipment pool is competitively priced, continually growing and currently consists of:
At Swathe Services we firmly believe in choosing the right equipment for the task in hand and pride ourselves in being able to offer a variety of marine survey equipment designed to obtain high resolution hydrographic survey data at maximum efficiency.
We can provide equipment as standalone solutions or with highly qualified operators experienced with installation, calibration and operation. We have a wide and varied equipment pool which includes additional peripherals devices required to make up complete swathe bathymetry systems
Sonic 2024 Wide Band Multibeam Echo Sounder
The SONIC 2024 is the world’s first proven wideband high resolution shallow water multibeam echo sounder. With proven results and unmatched performance, it produces reliable and remarkably clean data with maximum user flexibility. The unprecedented 60 kHz signal bandwidth offers twice the resolution of any other commercial sonar in both data accuracy and image.
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GeoSwath Plus Swath Bathymetry Systems
Offering simultaneous swath bathymetry and side scan mapping with accuracies exceeding the IHO standards for Hydrographic Surveys. The applied phase measuring bathymetric sonar technology provides data coverage of up to 12 times the water depth, giving unsurpassed survey efficiency in shallow water environments. The same area can be mapped 30% to 40% faster using GeoSwath Plus than with a typical beam forming echo sounder.
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Positioning & Motion Compensation – POSMV
Applanix Marine products and solutions provide robust, reliable, and repeatable positioning and motion compensation solutions from moving marine vessels. POS MV is a tightly-coupled system using Applanix' unique approach to Inertially-Aided Real-Time Kinematic (IARTK) technology. The user-friendly, turn-key systems provide accurate attitude, heading, heave, position, and velocity data, representing the latest in state-of-the-art inertial/GPS technology. The systems maintain positioning accuracy under the most demanding conditions, regardless of vessel dynamics.
Motion Reference Units – MRU
TSS DMS-05 is a survey to class 1 IHO standard MRU with dynamic roll and pitch accuracy to 0.05° and heave accurate to 5cm or 5% whichever is greater. The workhorse of motion reference units for many years the DMS-05 is a proven and reliable product and can be deployed above or below the water.
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Singlebeam Echo Sounders & Altimeters
The ODOM Echotrac duel frequency survey echo sounder gives high resolution thermal printing, microprocessor and DSP techniques and flat screen graphic displays. Three 16-bit processors share the real time computing tasks of the echo sounder and make it an extremely capable and easily interfaced instrument. The sonar transceiver, echo processor, graphical operator interface and hard copy recorder are all housed in one portable, splash-proof case. The unit, which is suited to table top, bulkhead or rack mounting is equally at home on either small survey launches or large ships
The Tritech PA500 Digital Precision Altimeter provides exceptionally accurate height off seabed and subsea distance measurements. Full digital synthesis of transmit and receive frequencies, together with greatly improved input dynamic range, offer unsurpassed levels of performance from a small, compact altimeter unit. The altimeter can be interfaced to a wide range of PC devices, data loggers, ROV telemetry systems and multiplexer
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Gyro and GPS vector based heading sensors
TSS SG Brown Meridian Gyro Compass is a precision marine gyrocompass with a dynamic heading accuracy of ±0.2° and a static heading accuracy of 0.05°. With its <40 minute settle time, Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) >30,000 hours and high turn rate of 200° per second it provides reliable and accurate heading data even in the most demanding environments.
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Hemisphere Crescent VS100 GPS Compass delivers 2D GPS heading accuracy better than 0.1 degree rms; differential positioning accuracy of less than 60 cm (95% of the time); integrated gyro and tilt sensor deliver fast start-up times and provide heading updates during temporary loss of GPS; fast heading and positioning output rates up to 20 Hz; differential options including SBAS (WAAS, EGNOS, etc.) and optional beacon differential; COAST™ technology maintains accurate solutions for 40 minutes or more after loss of differential signal; the status lights and menu system make the VS100 Series easy to monitor and configure.
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Sound velocity profilers and real time sensors
The Monitor SVP has been developed from Valeport's world leading Midas Sound Velocity Profilers, utilising the exceptional digital time of flight sound velocity sensor and synchronised sampling technique, but packaged as a smaller, lightweight unit to suit small boat or shallow water applications.
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Valeport’s MiniSVP is a new compact Sound Velocity Profiler. Featuring Valeport's unique acclaimed "time of flight" SV sensor, the miniSVP is available in either 500m rated acetal or 6000m rated titanium versions. A single C cell and large Flash memory allow hundreds of profiles to be recorded, and the pre-programmed profiling patterns allow it to be setup and deployed quickly and easily.
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The Valeport miniSVS Sound Velocity Sensors use state of the art digital "time of flight" technology to provide the lowest noise, highest accuracy, best resolution sound velocity data available. Small size and a choice of sensor lengths down to just 25mm make the sensor suitable for a variety of applications.
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Tide gauges
The Valeport 740 is a small Tide Gauge (water level recorder), specifically designed for applications where the user simply requires an accurate record of water height. The titanium housed vented pressure transducer is connected via a 20m cable to an above surface battery powered logger. The logger is powered by 4 "D" type cells, which, together with the 128kbyte memory allows operation for over 900 days at a 20 minute cycle with 10 second bursts. The burst length, cycle time, delay start time and site information is set using the PC software supplied. This software also allows the battery voltage to be checked, the time and date to be set and the recorded data to be extracted in a spreadsheet compatible format.
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Software
QINSy is a suite of hydrographic applications that cover a whole range of activities, from data acquisition to chart production. Whether it is for dredging, multibeam bathymetry, oceanographic research, site surveys, rig moves, marine construction support, pipeline/cable lay or ROV inspection, QINSy offers efficiency and reliability. Its modular design and inherent flexibility makes QINSy perfect for a wide variety of applications:
- Hydrographic and Oceanographic Surveys
- Offshore Pipeline Inspection and Pipe-laying
- Dredging and Marine Construction including Offshore Oil and Gas
- ROV and AUV Tracking and Data Collection
- Barge, Tug and Fleet Management
- Chart and ENC Production
- Laser Scanning
Qloud, the latest software offering from QPS, is an offline tool that is fully integrated with QINSy. It is a post processing tool and available as a stand-alone package. This software handles extremely large data sets and performs statistically-based data cleaning using parameters such as Total Propagated Error (TPE), IHO S-44 guidelines, the CUBE algorithms (UNH), and the Least Square Statistical Spline Method.
Qloud imports DTM points from QINSy QPD files, (includes multiple data attribute flags generated in QINSy), or from any third party point files, with or without attributes and metadata. The moment the data is loaded into Qloud, the survey is viewed as a single cloud of data points, presented in the full geographical context of ENCs and GeoTIFF imagery.
Automatic data cleaning tools using Clips, Area Spline filters and CUBE, are applied to the entire survey at once, or sequentially to selected sections. Where centre and outer beams overlap, TPE values are used to correctly weight each data point. A full complement of manual editing tools is also available.
HYPACK® provides all of the tools necessary to complete your hydrographic, side scan and magnetometer survey requirements. With over 4,000 users around the world, HYPACK® provides you with the tools necessary to meet almost any hydrographic survey requirement. It provides tools to design your survey, collect your data, apply corrections to soundings, remove outliers, plot field sheets, export data to CAD, compute volume quantities, generate contours, create side scan mosaics and create/modify electronic charts.
GeoSwath Plus is a suite of software which covers full data acquisition, calibration, processing and DTM production of interferometric data. It is used primarily with the GeoSwath Swath Bathymetry System and is geared at handling huge amounts of bathymetric data points.
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GeoTexture is a Side Scan Sonar Image Processing, Mosaicing, Texture Mapping and Classification software which has been designed to easily integrate with the GeoSwath Plus system. This software can take GeoSwath Plus side scan sonar data and correct for beam pattern and beam pointing directions, reduce the effects of heave and roll artefacts as well as correcting for seafloor slope variations.
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