3 Operations in 3 Days in Balearic Islands (Majorca)
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CASE STUDY Unmanned Surface Vehicle Operating in the Balearic Islands with 100 PRO and Wassp S3R multi-beam echo-sounder WASSP S3R by FURUNO + SB 100 PRO in Majorca (Balearic Islands)

The Company Founded in May 2019 in Barcelona as a spin-off of the GPAINNOVA Group, GPASEABOTS’ activity revolves around the development of technologies for exploring and preserving the marine environment, such as USVs (Unmanned Surface Vehicles) and buoys. Just a few months after its creation, the company was granted the Fuera de Serie (“state-of-the-art”) Design & Innovation Award, promoted by one of the most important publishing groups in Spain, in the category of Sustainability. In 2020 and 2021, GPASEABOTS deployed more than 100 buoys to study the coastal waters on beaches in Eastern...

Payloads GPASEABOTS’ SB 100 PRO is the most versatile USV platform on the market for sheltered waters activities. It is an indispensable tool for a fast, efficent and precise work. Both the operating cost and its environmental footprint are extremely low, and it allows to expand the range of possibilities in the field of data acquisition. GPASEABOTS’ SB 100 PRO USV is a fully integrated kit which includes all the core components required for a multi-beam survey operation, designed to ensure functionality, ease of use and cost effectiveness, all the while achieving accuracies required by...

Operation Planify Mission & Deployment Acquisition Time

Location Any journey from the Iberian Peninsula to the Balearic Islands requires transportation by ferry or by air. In this case, due to the small dimensions of the SB 100 PRO equipment, we travelled by ferry to Majorca with the vehicle on board. This allowed us to move around the island freely with the SB 100 PRO, being able to carry out different services along the Balearic coast.

Conclusions The multipurpose USV SB 100 PRO equipped with a WASSP S3R multibeam echo-sounder offers an unbeatable performance. We offer a complete pack with all the necessary instruments to carry out missions while increasing potential applications in several marine sectors. It can carry out control and monitoring of dock constructions, bathymetrics surveys, draught control, dredging, volume calculation, inspection of structures and locations of submerged artifacts. The INS SBG Ellipse Dual Antenna and the SVS Valeport included on it ensure accuracy and data quality.