Acoustic tools and associated equipment

We own and operate a range of acoustic tools and ground truthing equipment. These can either be based on our research vessel Cefas Endeavour, or supplied for use on other survey vessels. Additionally, our multidisciplinary team of experts can advise and assist on survey design, planning and analysis of outputs.

Equipment owned and operated by Cefas:

• Scanning sonar
• Multi-frequency splitbeam echosounder
• Acoustic Ground Discrimination Systems (AGDS)
• Digital sidescan sonar systems
• High resolution, shallow water multibeam bathymetry system
• Grab samples (Hamon, Shipek and Day grabs)
• Optical techniques (video, digital stills and Sediment Profile Imagery system)