MMT Group announces its second ownership of a Kongsberg EM2040D. The EM2040 dual head 0.4 degrees system will be delivered to NetSurvey part of MMT Group in the beginning of April.
This is the first highly developed multibeam echo sounder to combine all of the advanced features of deepwater echo sounders to the near-bottom sounding environment.
Such features include:
1. Dual swath per ping to maintain a high survey speed
2. FM chirp to achieve a much longer range capability
3. Complete roll, pitch and yaw stabilization
4. Near-field focusing both when transmitting and receiving
[mappress] Subsea World News Staff , March 20, 2012; Image: MMT