19-Dec-2011
SeaExplorer conduit avec succès sa première mission hauturière
Après une semaine de navigation en eau douce sur le Lac Léman par température extérieure négative, le planeur océanographique SeaExplorer a été mis à l’eau le 30 novembre 2011, au large de Nice pour c...
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01-Jan-2011
ACSA best wishes
Toute l'équipe ACSA vous adresse leurs meilleurs vœux pour une année 2011 couronnée de très nombreux succès.
All ACSA’s teams wish you a happy and prosperous 2011 year.
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25-Oct-2010
GIB-FT Torpedoes Portable Tracking System is commissioned by DCNS
The first GIB-FT portable torpedo tracking system ordered by DCNS to ACSA Underwater GPS has been commissioned after successful tests. GIB-FT, a fully proven system, will be used by DCNS and the Frenc...
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22-Oct-2010
Cyprus 2010 - ECAC Second workshop on underwater recovery operations. Black boxes fast recovery equipment
On October 19th, during ECAC Second workshop on underwater aircraft recovery operations, ACSA demonstrated the efficiency of its GIB-SAR systems used for black boxes location and recovery underwater.
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02-Mar-2010
At-sea successful qualification for SeaExplorer supervised oceanographic Glider
ACSA Underwater GPS is proud to announce that SeaExplorerTM has successfully been qualified at sea. More than 5 days of intensive testing have been run, during which navigation & embedded controls hav...
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01-Feb-2010
ACSA introduces a new concept in Search and Recovery operations
ACSA Underwater GPS is introducing a new approach to Search and Recovery operations called the "Flying Team Concept".
Each time an accident occurs at sea, numerous means are mobilized on site to brin...
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20-Jan-2010
GIB-Plus system fully commissioned - offering extended performances.
GIB-Plus system, ACSA latest development in portable tracking systems has been successfully commissioned by ECA. The system offers an extended 2 x 2 Nautical miles coverage area using a 25 kHz trackin...
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01-Jan-2010
Best wishes
Hubert THOMAS et toute l'équipe ACSA vous adressent leurs meilleurs vœux pour une année 2010 couronnée de très nombreux succès.
Hubert THOMAS and all ACSA’s teams wish you a happy and prosperous 2010...
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23-Nov-2009
GIB-Plus system fully commissioned - offering extended performances.
GIB-Plus system, ACSA latest development in portable tracking systems, has been successfully commissioned by ECA. The system offers an extended 2 x 2 Nautical miles coverage area using a 25 kHz tracki...
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01-Jan-2009
Best wishes
Happy New Year 2009!...
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02-Oct-2008
New contract for ACSA Underwater GPS GIB-FT Portable Tracking System for Torpedoes
ACSA Underwater GPS has been notified an important contract to supply 2 underwater portable torpedoes tracking systems. GIB-FT, a fully proven system, will be used by DCNS and the French Navy to track...
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01-Oct-2008
New success for GIB-Lite - Decimetric accuracy for tracking on ship hull.
ACSA Underwater GPS have just driven qualification at-sea tests of GIB-Lite tracking system for ship hull inspection. Innovative differential techniques have been applied to achieve 10 cm accuracy in ...
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31-Jul-2008
BASIL Delivered to Hawaii and commissionned
BASIL has been successfully commissionned in Hawaii. The BASIL will form a part of the US Navy’s Portable Undersea Tracking Range (PUTR)....
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01-Jan-2008
Best Wishes
Happy New Year 2008...
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01-Jun-2007
New development contract for ACSA Underwater GPS SeaExplorer supervised oceanographic Glider
ACSA Underwater GPS has been notified of an important research and development contract, financed by French Ministry of Industry.
This program is a collaboration between industry, scientific labs an...
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23-Oct-2006
New export contract for ACSA Underwater GPS Delivery of electric-powered Station Keeping Buoys to the US Navy
ACSA Underwater GPS has been notified of an important order by Lockheed Martin, Marlton, New Jersey, for the delivery of electric powered Station Keeping Buoys (SKBs) with supporting data, equipment a...
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30-Sep-2006
ACSA launches GIB-Plus
New generation of the famous GIB-STD, its flexible design brings improvement and new functions. Best suited for offshore applications over a large area, this robust system will target a wide range of ...
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07-Aug-2006
First pool tests for SeaExplorer
In August 2006, the first pool tests of SeaExplorer moke up were successfully conduced. In July 2006 this cooperative project was approved by the “Pole Mer PACA” committee....
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30-May-2006
Expeditious SAR mission in Russia
On May 8th, 2006, ACSA has been urgently asked by BEA (French Bureau of Investigation and Analysis) to localize precisely the 2 Armavia's plane black boxes after the plane accident in the Black Sea.
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30-Apr-2006
GIB-Lite reaches decimetric accuracy
In April 2006, Fugro-TopNav has evaluated GIB-Lite accuracy. The tests proved that GIB system accuracy was brought up to the centimetric level: the distance between two acoustic pingers simultaneously...
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30-Apr-2006
GIB-Lite strongly penetrates small AUVs market
In 2005, ACSA and CNRS-LIRMM have closely worked together to integrate a GIBTM tracking pinger to H-160 light weight autonomous vehicle. By offering D-GPS accuracy underwater without the constraints o...
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09-Mar-2006
A break through in UW Mine-hunting
For the very first time, an underwater MCM weapon succeeded a direct hit at a range above 1000 m from launching platform. On March 9th, 2006, south of Toulon, ACSA's GIBTM portable tracking, guidance ...
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01-Mar-2006
GIB-Lite goes to Hawaii
Since 2000, GIBTM portable tracking systems are used for scientific mapping of submerged ecosystems. Another GIB-Lite system will be delivered this month to the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology for ...
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01-Mar-2006
GIB-TSSC - New application of miniaturized seabed synchronous beacons
The GIB-TSSC* seabed beacon is a pinger which transmits acoustic pulses according to pseudo-random time spaced sequences synchronised on GPS time. This product, having a weight of 5 Kg in air, is the ...
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01-Dec-2005
BASIL self propelled buoys
In December 05, ACSA and GEOCEAN have demonstrated at sea the feasibility to accurately track underwater vehicles using 3 station keeping buoys (SKBs). The SKBs were remotely controlled from a shore s...
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01-Aug-2005
Gliders: New application for GIBTM buoys
Gliders users and manufacturers show a very high interest in the GIBTM technology.
By using just one GIBTM buoy, it is possible to calibrate the glider drift in X&Y and to modif...
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01-Jul-2005
Deep positioning system commissioning - INFN - Italy
In November 2004, the Italian Institute For Nuclear Physics, INFN had ordered to ACSA an underwater positioning system for their Deepwater Neutrino telescope. In July 2005, the Factory Acceptance Test...
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01-Jul-2005
Severe conditions and success for first GIB-Lite & H160 survey
On July 21st, in the Etang de Thau (South of France) LIRMM H-160 AUV was surveying (CTD) an at-sea fresh water source. The accuracy of the GIB-Lite system tracking in real time allowed vehicle supervi...
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01-Jun-2005
GIB-Lite success in shallow water and harsh conditions
Fugro TopNav has used the GIB-Lite system in Flamanville (France - English Channel) to accurately position a steamer in very shallow water. Two GIB-Lite pingers were attached to the steamer. An air g...
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01-Jun-2005
Explora 05 - Demonstration of GIB-Lite system
During the Explora 05 demonstrations organized by GESMA in June 2005, ACSA has demonstrated the performances of the GIB-Lite system in the Brest (France) harbor. GIB-Lite system proved its very high l...
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01-May-2005
Major breakthrough in underwater warfare thanks to GIBTM
The 19th may 2005, DCN has conducted at-sea trials to validate a new concept in mine neutralization using GIBTM buoys and ECA K-Ster vehicle. The EMDV has been guided in less than 3 minutes...
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02-Dec-2004
More sales of Fleet-Manager AUVs mission planning and supervision software
ISE has ordered 2 FleetManager software for multiple vehicles mission planning and supervision. Those software components will be integrated into the 2 AUVs delivered by ISE to the University of South...
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01-Dec-2004
Italy - INFN - Deepwater Neutrinos Telescope
The Italian Institute For Nuclear Physics, INFN, has ordered a set of synchronous beacons that will be laid in 3000 m to position an unlimited number of neutrinos detection spheres. The spheres will b...
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01-Dec-2004
Time management products
SIREHNA has commissioned in December a GIB-STS unit (Serial data frame Time Stamper). This hardware module adds a GPS time header accurate to a tenth of a millisecond to any serial data stream. This i...
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01-Nov-2004
New success for GIB-Lite in shallow water surveys
In November 2004, a GIB-Lite system operated by FUGRO-TOPNAV has been used with much success in shallow water survey work. The system was used to track a diver swimming over 2 pipelines in bad visibil...
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01-Jun-2004
GIB-Lite and ERUS - Divers tracking & voice communication
Numerous divers missions require to associate positioning and communication functions. In order to offer an efficient answer to this need, Thales Safare and ACSA Underwater GPS have implemented, insid...
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01-Jun-2004
Submarine underwater telephone & GIB-SAR - Fast Search & Rescue ops
Based on this principle, Thales Safare and ACSA Underwater GPS have decided to guaranty the interoperability in between their underwater communication equipment and Search and Rescue systems.
Thales ...
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02-May-2004
GIB-Lite qualification tests
The brand new GIB-Lite system has pased with much success its final qualification tests. This small and low cost portable tracking system is dedicated to small ROV and divers in shallow water. This ea...
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01-Mar-2004
New success for GIB in ASW exercises
Using GIB portable tracking system, DCN has demonstrated (March 30th 2004) that it was possible in less than half a day to conduct a full ASW exercise. Less than 3 hours have been necessary to deploy ...
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01-Mar-2004
FleetManager at IFREMER
FleetManager is the mission planing and supervision software coupled with newly receipted Explorer AUV delivered by ISE to IFREMER. FleetManager is used for mission planing, vehicle's mission file gen...
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01-Feb-2004
IFREMER commissions ISE Explorer 3000 AUV
GIB system was intensively used for tracking and supervision of Explorer 3000 AUV during SAT trials and training dives....
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20-Jan-2004
Sharm El Sheikh aircraft accident - New success for GIB buoys
5 hours only to relocate black boxes in more than 1000 m of water depth.
While deep intervention ROVs were en route to Sharm El Sheikh, ACSA was mobilized by the French Navy to participate to the sea...
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01-Dec-2003
FleetManager supervision and mission planning
ACSA has delivered to GESMA 3 licenses of new software FleetManager, dedicated to supervision of multiple vehicles and mission planing.
GESMA will install those licenses on their ships Aventurière an...
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15-Jun-2003
GIB and MCM operations
SeaKeeper is now a fully operational MCM system, using the autonomous semi-submersible platform DORADO from ISE, which deploys the towfish AURORA.
The GIB system is used for the accurate positioning...
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01-Jun-2003
GIB-USC: new GPS time server for AUVs
ACSA has developed a new product: GIB-USC board. This is a GPS time server board (LAN and serial) as well as a trigger for payloads synchronization. This board has a ultra-stable clock synchronized on...
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02-May-2003
ACSA Fleet Manager Software
ACSA Fleet Manager software is dedicated to supervision of multiple vehicles and mission planing.
This software will be delivered this month to IFREMER with ISE AUV Explorer-3000.
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01-Nov-2002
New success for GIB-SAR
GIB-SAR system has been used with much success with RUMIC rescue submarine LR-5 during a rescue exercise that took place in Arran Island.
The GIB-SAR fully portable system enables a fast and accurat...
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30-Oct-2002
14 days autonomy for GIB buoys
ACSA has developed a new flotation for GIB buoys, containing Lead-Acid rechargeable batteries and providing 14 days of autonomy. It will be delivered to Phoenix International (US) by the end of Octobe...
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01-Oct-2002
New success for GIB
Australian company acquires a GIB portable tracking system to track an underwater vehicle. It will be delivered by the end of October 2002. This new success confirms that GIB family (standard GIB, GIB...
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01-Oct-2002
MK-Services purchases a GIB system
MK-Services has ordered a GIB Standard system that will be delivered by mid November. It will be available for rental for offshore applications, AUV, ROV and diver tracking, cable or pipe lying superv...
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15-Feb-2002
GIB-FT Torpedo tracking commissioned
GIB-FT Portable Torpedo tracking system was successfully tested at sea with a fast vehicle that was tracked in real-time at a speed over 50 knots.
Factory Acceptance Tests of GIB-FT system for German...
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01-Feb-2002
Seafloor Systems Inc.
Representation agreement has been sign of March 5th 2002, with SF inc., Oregon, to promote the GIB portable tracking systems on the north-west coast of USA and Canada for commercial applications. Cont...
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15-Jan-2002
GIB and Side Scan Sonar accurate positioning
GIB system demonstration was carried on in La Spezia area in January 2002. A side Scan Sonar was accurately positioned, as well as a diver. (Report available - Contact us)....
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01-Nov-2001
GIB coupled with 3D Virtual Reality
GIB accurate positioning system has been coupled with a 3D Virtual Reality console. An at-sea demonstration using Cybernetix's crawler "SPIDER" proved how much help can be offered to vehicle guidance ...
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01-Oct-2001
Metric Accuracy in Minewarfare Positioning
ACSA has delivered this month to Mac Donald Dettwiler and Associates, MDA, a GIB portable tracking system. This system, composed of a set of 4 buoys, will allow to track simultaneously 2 underwater mo...
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01-Sep-2001
Manned Submarine Rescue
Based on fully operational black box recovery equipment, ACSA is now developing a system to assist manned submarine rescue operations.
Again, the objective is to offer a solution that allows very acc...
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01-Sep-2001
GIB-FT Fast mobile tracking system
The German Navy (Bundesamt für Wehrtechnik und Beschaffung and Wehrtechnische Dienststelle für Schiffe und Marinewaffen) have ordered to ORCA Instrumentation and ACSA a GIB-FT System, which allows to ...
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01-Aug-2001
Fast Black Box Relocation Techniques
ACSA has developed a fast Black Box relocation system based on GIB concept. Demonstrations were carried on in Brest the 30 & 31 th October 2000 and proved that the Black Boxes were recovered in less t...
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01-Jul-2001
MIT AUV LAB
ACSA has delivered a GIB tracking system to the MIT. This system will allow to track simultaneously 2 AUVs. The system will be used in numerous applications including research work in advanced underwa...
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05-Jan-2001
Deep Off Shore Operations
The US Navy via Oceaneering have placed an order to ACSA for a GIB system for deep operations (rated 2500 m). This system has a dual functioning mode and will also be used for Black Box Relocation. Th...
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01-Dec-2000
Shallow water ROV and Diver Applications
A Nice (France) airport underwater pipeline inspection has been conducted with Aqua Consult by a ROV and a diver using the GIB 32 kHz tracking system. This has allowed to produce a 3D profile of the p...
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