Kraken Awarded $2.9 Million KATFISH Contract from ThayerMahan Inc.
Wednesday 25 September 2019
Kraken Robotics Inc. announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Kraken Robotic Systems Inc., has received a purchase order from ThayerMahan Inc., for a KATFISH™180 system. This follows a first KATFISH™order in June 2019 from them. ThayerMahan Inc. is a US-based company specializing in the design, integration, and operation of autonomous maritime systems for government, industry, and academic customers. The contract value is $2.9 million, with delivery expected in Q1, 2020. ThayerMahan will deploy Kraken’s KATFISH 180 as part of its SeaScout® expeditionary system for seabed mapping and intelligence.
About SeaScout®
SeaScout® is an expeditionary system for seabed mapping and intelligence. SeaScout® features the following characteristics:
- Kraken’s KATFISH™ 180, an actively stabilized towfish with Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) providing wide area seafloor survey, with high area coverage rates; superior pixel resolution for detection and classification; real-time, full-swath, full-resolution SAS processing; 200m+ operating depth; altitude- or depth-keeping navigation; automatic target detection; and in-stride classification.
- Real-time seafloor imagery transmission using secure, reliable (zero-error), rapid, data-compressed content delivery to cloud-based storage between fixed sites and mobile platforms.
- Cloud-based data analytics, using machine learning for automated change detection of seabed targets by comparing test-generated and deployed seabed targets against previously surveyed bottom mapping baseline information.