Our 11th User Workshop "Seabed Acoustics", took place on 5–6 November 2025. This workshop has been jointly hosted by Innomar and NORBIT Subsea at the Hotel Neptun in Rostock-Warnemünde.
Thanks to all attendees for joining us and especially to all of you who helped to make this event again a success.
Presentations
- Jean-Guy Nistad (Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, Germany):
Advancements in geodetic-hydrographic data acquisition and processing at German Hydrographic Office - Edvin Tousi (Era Marine AB, Sweden):
Gain Knowledge by Using New Technologies - Jens Wunderlich (Innomar Technologie GmbH, Germany):
Innomar News - Maria Carrizo (Seekable, Netherlands):
Optimal SBP design for cable detection - Graeme Symes (Clearwater Hydroacoustics, United Kingdom):
Marking of seabed cables using Sonarbell - Milen Iliev (Fugro, Germany):
Extensive channel systems, gas indicators, and infrastructure — A multi sensor geophysical site investigation of the subsoil in the North Sea - Hendrik Huster (Seaterra GmbH, Germany):
Linking Magnetic Signatures to Geological Change — A Case Study from the North Sea and Baltic Sea - Hakan Saritas (VLIZ Flanders Marine Institute, Belgium):
Enhancing Pseudo-3D Subsurface Volumes with Innomar SBP Data for the Development of Offshore Windfarms in Belgium - Stefan Krojer (Vienna University, Austria):
Drowned Villages of the Scheldt — High-Resolution Sediment Sonar Measurements for Archaeological Prospection - Martijn Mineur (Van Oord, Netherlands):
From Seabed to Shore — Mapping Sand Resources for Coastal Protection - Peter Thierer (GEO Group, Germany):
Data examples from different environments and innovative processing of SBP data - Uni Bull (Norbit ASA, Norway):
Layered Media Detection — A novel approach to efficient mapping in areas with fluid mud
Exhibition
- Innomar: parametric sub-bottom profilers: "essential", "compact-usv", "medium-usv", "medium-100"
- Maritime Robotics Otter ASV with Norbit MBES and Innomar essential SBP
- Norbit / Kalmar Systems: NORBIT iWBMS X Ekinox integrated Multibeam Echo Sounder
- Ping DSP: Ping 3DSS Sonars
- MacArtney Germany: C-MAX Vigo Winch, Valeport Swift SVP, MacArtney Germany Calibration Services
Equipment Demo
- Innomar "essential" parametric sub-bottom profiler
- NORBIT iWBMS X Ekinox integrated Multibeam Echo Sounder
- BeamworX NavAQ navigation and data acquisition software
Classroom Sessions
- Innomar (Jens Wunderlich): Innomar Parametric SBPs — Technology and Applications
- Norbit (Stuart Mason): Applications of NORBIT Multibeam Sonars in Areas of Liquid Mud
- Ping DSP (James Moss): Ping 3DSS sonar — Next Generation Interferometry and What Sets It Apart