SBIR/STTR Research Award
Forward Bathymetry and Obstacle Avoidance Sensing for Safe High Speed Boat Operation Using 3D Forward Looking Sonar
Award amount
$70,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2010Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- FARSOUNDER INC
- Proposal award date
- 2010-05-10
- Contract end date
- 2011-03-09
- UEI
- XUJ3ED2ZVFZ5
- Solicitation number
- 2010.1
- Topic code
- N101-077
Research abstract
In order to improve the safety and efficiency of navy high speed small boat operations, FarSounder proposes a 3-dimensional, forward looking sonar solution capable of simultaneous bathymetry sensing and obstacle detection out to ranges of at least 1640 ft (500m). Additionally, the system will be cable of 50 knot operation and suitable for installation on a high speed planing vessel such as common 11-meter RHIBs: the SOCHRIB, NSW RHIB, and certain classes of Unmanned Marine Vessels (UMVs). Additionally, the system will be designed to include a simple to use and understand human interface as well as a machine interface suitable for integrating the sonar''s data output into 3rd party command and control systems.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Enabling Expanded Crowdsourced Bathymetry Contributions With High Quality Metadata Via Commercially Sustainable Incentives To Contributors
- Low Cost 3D Sonar System for Underwater Threat Detection
- Low Cost 3D Sonar System for Underwater Threat Detection
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Forward Bathymetry Sensing for Safe High Speed Boat Operation
- Forward Bathymetry Sensing for Safe High Speed Boat Operation
- Forward Bathymetry Sensing for Safe High Speed Boat Operation
Research funding history
4 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2005–2023). Reported award amounts total $1,168,036. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense, Department of Commerce