Kongsberg Maritime Ltd, the UK division of Kongsberg Maritime has completed the first ever APOS Survey installation on Bibby Offshore’s long term charter vessel, the Olympic Bibby. The new APOS Survey operator station enables surveyors to leverage the power of Kongsberg Maritime’s HiPAP High Precision Acoustic Positioning system, to deliver accurate survey results simultaneously, whilst the HIPAP is still utilised as a DP position reference.
With new generation of positioning software for flexible, cost effective subsea survey and construction operations, APOS Survey station offers full LBL and SSBL, quicker mobilisation times and is designed for both permanent and temporary installation on vessels, negating the mobilisation cost and time associated with over the side portable transducers.
APOS Survey communicates directly with the HiPAP transceiver, enabling the surveyor to operate independently of the bridge. Acoustic interrogations are interleaved or run simultaneously with the DP system updates, without making changes to the vessel’s APOS software or installation parameters. With APOS Survey, the surveyor can interface local survey grade sensors, IMU, gyro and GNSS, set up lever arms and load sound velocity profiles independent of the vessel, thus unlocking the full potential of HiPAP for survey operations.