Kongsberg Maritime has extended its portfolio of sophisticated scientific hydroacoustic products with the launch of the Simrad EK80, a high precision wideband echo sounder.
The Norwegian technology expert said that the EK80 is a quantum leap forward in acoustics for ecosystem monitoring, working on frequencies from 10 to 500 kHz simultaneously.
The Simrad EK80 supersedes the popular Simrad EK60, a system that has sold more than 1,100 units for research vessels worldwide and has become an international standard for fish stock assessment.
Developed in close cooperation with leading marine institutes who carried out extensive testing of prototypes during the development period, the EK80 provides an advanced tool for scientists investigating marine and freshwater ecosystems.
The Simrad EK80 can operate with single and or split beam transducers and provides real time echo integration and target strength visualisation in an unlimited number of layers, as well as recording and storage of raw data for replay or analysis.
Kongsberg has also launched the new Simrad Autonomous EK system, which is cutting edge technology to carry out continuous long term, in-depth ecosystem monitoring of the subsea environment.
The Simrad Autonomous EK system uses wideband echo sounding technology to discriminate between plankton and different fish species producing high-quality, high resolution scientific data.
