News / Sub-bottom profiler part of ‘progressive strategy’
The NAFC Marine Centre has taken delivery of a high tech sub-bottom profiler which can produce a detailed picture of sediments below the seabed.
The new equipment forms part of the college’s strategy of developing its technological capability in order to provide services to the aquaculture and increasingly to the renewables industry.
The profiler can be used to plan the siting and deployment of marine infrastructure such as pilings, pipes, cables, mooring or any other installation that penetrates the seabed surface.
Head of marine science and technology, Dr. Martin Robinson said: “This acquisition has been made as part of a progressive strategy to develop detailed surveying capabilities within Shetland, not only to support the correct siting of future developments, but also to link to the Marine Spatial Plan.
The marine centre’s marine development team and the profiler will be at the Dynamic Shetland-Renewable Energy Exhibition and Conference on 16/17 November at the Clickimin Centre, in Lerwick.
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