Data Processing

Acoustic Data Processing

Quester Tangent provides expert data processing services in respect of marine acoustic remote sensing. The services are based on single beam and swath data, utilizing Quester Tangent's QTC IMPACT™ for single beam data, or QTC MULTIVIEW™ and QTC SIDEVIEW™ for swath data. LIDAR data can also be processed for seabed classification.

Partial client list includes:

• Provincial, State, Federal and Municipal bodies
• Academia
• Commercial companies, large and small
• Non-profit environmental organizations

Final products range from a simple report covering basic comments on the validity and quality of the data, to full scale, multi-year processing contracts, providing output in formats as required by the clients. Processing projects and contracts include:

• Turnkey, one-day projects
• 1375 line-kilometers of sidescan sonar data from Bristol Bay, Alaska (over 300 GB of raw data)
• 14400 line-kilometers of the eastern Bering Sea (more than 70 gigabytes of raw data)
• Processing only
• Acquisition and processing

Data processing services are provided by a team of scientists and engineers with extensive marine acoustics experience. Led by a senior marine geologist with a background in acoustic remote sensing, the team also includes a senior scientist with an acoustics background in the area of mine countermeasures and anti-submarine warfare.