Coda Echoscope is a unique, patented technology delivering high resolution 3D images underwater in real time. Originally developed by Omnitech of Norway, now part of CodaOctopus, Echoscope employs highly innovative multi-element transducer design, high speed digital signal processing, advanced sonar beam forming techniques and intuitive image display software and outperforms all other imaging sonar systems.

Able to ensonify 3D volumes up to 50 x 50 degrees at ranges of up to 200m, Echoscope generates instantaneous 3D imagery comprising over 16,000 focussed beams (128 x 128 beam array) with a range resolution of 1cm. With up to 20 updates per second, Echoscope can be used for real-time monitoring of live sub sea engineering operations and excels where conventional 2D sonars fail to deliver. Suitable for hull mount, over-the-side mount or ROV installation, Echoscope can be deployed quickly from vessels of opportunity, for rapid but highly accurate underwater survey.

Applications include:

• Obstacle detection and avoidance
• Structure inspection
• Diver detection
• Harbour surveillance
• Construction monitoring and measurement
• Pipeline inspection
• Bridge scour inspection
• Trenching operation monitoring
• Pipe and cable lay monitoring
• Under-hull inspection (integrity, security and customs)

Much work has been done with various defense bodies in the US involving Echoscope, mainly coordinated through the University of South Florida (USF), who have been appointed government/military experts to consider the technology and its applications in the US, particularly for defense applications. CodaOctopus recently became the first company to successfully map and reference a complete ship hull, causing a huge amount of interest within all the relevant bodies in the US. In addition to winning a defense bid for a Forward Looking Obstacle Avoidance Sonar based on Echoscope, a number of Echoscope systems have also been sold in the US, Japan and Europe.