Oceans Monitoring

The Thwaites Glacier in an isolated part of Antarctica has the potential to cause a catastrophic rise in global sea levels. It is melting fast and accounts for four percent of the world’s annual sea level rise. The scientific community would like to monitor Thwaites in order that they can determine how quickly it is warming and how threatening it could prove to be. Sercel's MATS3G acoustic modem was used on the nupiri muka, a fully autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV).

The MARINE Test Center is a laboratory born from a partnership between Sercel Underwater Acoustics and SHIP AS A SERVICE. The combination of both companies’ expertise in acoustic communication and marine services make it the ideal choice for the test, qualification and validation of in-sea equipment. The sea test center offers a safe and secure environment within which to achieve your test objectives under optimal conditions.

Marine mammal monitoring provides a window into the state of the oceans, helping to understand ecological change, assess the impacts of human activities and promote the conservation of marine ecosystems.

Sercel’s QuietSea^TM is a fully integrated Passive Acoustic Monitoring system stepped up performance with the extension of the frequency bandwidth to 180 kHz, allowing the detection of cetaceans (porpoise click trains as example.) 

Our light and compact underwater acoustic modem, MATS LT, was recently used by Kopadia, a French company specializing in underwater inspection projects. By allowing easy integration and delivering good results in very shallow waters, MATS LT enabled Kopadia to design, in a record time, a fully integrated positioning and tracking solution for its AUV.

Conducting underwater seismic surveys can be an extremely challenging task, requiring the deployment of specialized equipment such as ocean-bottom seismometers in hostile environments, often several thousand meters beneath sea-level.