Environmental Monitoring Software
Discover cutting-edge solutions from 4 leading global suppliersPlanBlue is a pioneering developer of state-of-the-art seafloor intelligence solutions that integrate underwater hyperspectral imaging (UHI), AI and geo-referencing to provide critical and actionable insights for enhanced and more efficient decision-making.
As a continued partner, UST is highlighting the company’s unique solutions via the PlanBlue supplier profile. The company’s fully-automated technology can be easily deployed on board AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles), ROVs (remotely operated vehicles) and USVs (uncrewed surface vessels), and is ideal for supporting a wide variety of use cases including security and defense, offshore infrastructures, and nature-based operations.
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PlanBlue’s platform-agnostic payload integrates with AUVs, ROVs, USVs, towed systems, and diver-operated setups, providing a flexible solution that can be tailored to different use cases, scenarios, and operating conditions. The payload incorporates a UHI sensor, high-resolution RGB camera, environmental sensors, lights, computing unit, and motion and navigation units.
The company’s unmanned underwater survey technology can be provided in two form factors. Optimal surveys require an indicative 2-2.5 m altitude from the seafloor to reduce absorption of transmitted and received light.
The highly adaptable Autoray sensor payload integrates seamlessly into a wide range of ROV and AUV platforms, allowing users to benefit from PlanBlue’s technology while using existing equipment. The company can also provide deployment services through one of a number of trusted partners.
This solution is ideal for large-scale projects, enabling high-speed, precise monitoring of extensive seafloor areas and efficiently delivering accurate results across vast distances. PlanBlue’s AutoRay relies on the motion-navigation of the carrier platform.
The plug-and-play TowRay solution is designed to be towed behind a vessel, and is ideal for mapping near-shore, shallow, or flat seafloor areas. The cost-effective solution is highly suitable for covering large areas, and provides the option to monitor real-time data acquisition.
TowRay requires a small vessel with a winch to regulate altitude from the seafloor, similar to other geophysical towing equipment.
Data Products
By providing the entire data chain, PlanBlue delivers the world’s first highly detailed seafloor maps for a wide variety of underwater operations – standardized, fully automated, fast and at scale. The software pipelines extract a wide range of data products from the same dataset in just hours, tailored to your specific needs and markets. Examples of these products include:
- Orthoimagery
- Health
- Ecosystem Stressors
- Biodiversity
- Carbon Stock
