Page 23 - Australian Defence Magazine November 2021

Offshore Unlimited vessel ‘Outer limit’ – Image courtesy Offshore Unlimited
RAN personnel undertaking training at the Australian Maritime College – Image courtesy Dr Damien Guihen, AMC Search
The company’s digital and spatial capability using 3D sonar and laser scanning technology is in high demand for producing detailed 3D mapping and modelling of features and structures.
Veris offers a tailor-made solution to ensure assets remain safe, operational and efficient with survey and mapping results being used to provide a complete three dimensional as-built model of the structure both above and below the waterline.
Focused on safe maritime operations, Tasmania’s TideTech
is also seeing local and international success through their weather, wave and ocean monitoring and forecasting services.
Based on official and academic sources not available elsewhere, TideTech’s solutions cover the range of data necessary for safe maritime operations including detailed projections covering global weather conditions, waves, sea temperature, ocean and tidal currents as well as modelling of tidal elevations, currents, storm and tide surges.
Also located in Hobart, the CSIRO’s Marine National Facility is Australia’s only dedicated blue-water research centre providing an impressive multi-disciplinary marine research capability which enables a wide-range of research activity.
‘RV Investigator’ at the CSIRO Marine Laboratories in Hobart – Image courtesy of CSIRO
With its ocean-class research vessel the RV Investigator, the Marine National Facility supports biological, oceanographic, geological and atmospheric research, as well as marine education and training.
The vessel is funded for year-round operation, providing up to 300 research days each year and supports Australia’s contribution to large international research programs to address research questions in a global context.
With these national and world-leading entities and a range of other oceanic and marine expert bodies such as the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, the Southern Ocean Observing System, the Integrated Marine Observing System, the Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre, the CSIRO’s Oceans and Atmosphere centre, CLS Oceania and Imbros
all located in Tasmania, it is no wonder that we are increasingly being sought for our hydrographic and oceanographic expertise.
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