The offshore wind market is growing with a steady increase in installed capacity in recent years.

Offshore wind farms provide a clean, renewable source of energy to meet the growing demand for electricity. Offshore wind technologies have also undergone a significant evolution, offering ever larger and more efficient wind turbines as well as improved construction, installation and consequently monitoring techniques.

However, the high initial cost of offshore wind projects remains a challenge for the expansion of this market. This is why it’s essential to optimize exploration and geotechnics with precision, while paying particular attention to the protection of marine mammals in underwater environment. 

There are numerous countermeasure concerns, such as the protection of commercial routes near coastal areas. The market trend is oriented towards autonomous navigation systems. These demining solutions can be equipped with high-performance, discreet, and secure acoustic communication systems, such as MATS3G that enables decision autonomy.

Surveillance allows with different levels of answers the protection of infrastructures and sensitive sites (submarine bases, ports, wind farms, submarine cables, shock point, border control). It prevent against the intrusion of unmanned underwater vehicles or enemy divers, who can threaten to these installations.

The water column can be used to illegally transport goods or people. Surveillance can help fight against drug trafficking, arms smuggling, and other illegal activities.

Surveillance can be undertaken with the installation of instrumented, connected stations. Information management is achieved via data recording or real-time transmission to detect and report any change of activity.

In recent years, appropriation of resources and maritime spaces by states have increased, generating an expansion of potential space for conflict. In this context, it is a challenge for states to increase their abilities to guarantee the freedom of action of their naval force or to protect their underwater infrastructures, interests, and resources.

Operators in oil and gas, ports, and offshore windfarm environments need to optimize vessel movements and schedules while also maintaining situational awareness of all operations. The Marlin Application Suite addresses a range of marine operational challenges, including methods for linking charter information, vessel plans, tasks, schedules, and positions to past, present, and future offshore activities.

Monitoring the Earth and the oceans is a major challenge for the preservation of our environment and the management of natural resources. It makes it possible to monitor climate change, natural phenomena such as hurricanes and earthquakes, as well as the evolution of marine ecosystems. Finally, it plays a crucial role in the mapping and management of territories for the sustainable use of land and marine resources.

The energy transition is necessary to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, which are responsible for greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. By adopting renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power, we can lower our carbon footprint and preserve the environment for future generations. Moreover, the energy transition promotes technological innovation, creates new economic opportunities and improves the resilience of our energy systems.