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Selected Clients and Projects
City of San Diego Environmental Survey
Oak Ridge Nuclear Labs Environmental Cleanup
Drainage Culvert Inspection by Center for Water
Research
Hydro Quebec Hydroelectric Dam Inspections
NASA Zero Gravity Training Facility
Texas Department of Transportation
University of Texas Southwest Medical Center
American Divers, Outfall Construction Inspection
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cmap@cmapsystems.comC-MAP SYSTEMS, INC.
PO BOX 2309
Red Lodge, MT 59068
Voice: 406-446-1909
Fax: 435-446-1923
Scientists with the City of San Diego use Mission Manager to record environmental data relating to the city's outfall projects. Many types of classifications, instrument readings, and images are collected and stored by Mission Manager. The system then provides a means to instantly compare images and data from previous surveys to current conditions. Reports are generated and written to CD-ROM with the CD reporting option.
Mission Manager is interfaced directly to the city's research vessel navigation system (compass, fathometer, and GPS) and to the ROV ultra-short baseline positioning system. The MM GIS window provides a graphical representation of real time location for both the vessel and ROV. Maps are downloaded from the county ArcInfo GIS system for use in MM. Maps with added data may then be uploaded back into the main GIS.
As an option, the San Diego system includes a remote helm display that allows the ship's captain to steer and navigate from a map display, generated by Mission Manager, on a networked laptop computer.
Oak Ridge Nuclear Reservation Cleanup
SonSub International, of Houston, TX used a Mission Manager System, with mapping options, to manage the clean up of the Kerr Hollow Quarry at the Oak Ridge National Laboratories. The Kerr Hollow contained everything from discarded government ID badges to numerous types of hazardous, radioactive, and explosive materials.
SonSub used a robotic submarine to locate and map each item in the quarry, and then track each item as it was neutralized and removed. The Mission Manager System provided a workstation which displayed live digital video from the robot submarine, a continuous plot of the vehicle position and items located on a map (via a SHARPS precise acoustic navigation unit), and the database tools to log each item the operator observed. Any dangerous items located were neutralized by shaped charge detonation or mechanical shredding before they were removed .
Mission Manager was used to drive the robot to previously located items, recall video frames alongside the live video to positively identify the item at each stage of the operation, and track the position and status of each item through the entire process leading to removal. Mission Manager was used to successfully track and manage the removal of over 10,000 items from the Kerr Hollow Quarry.
Center for Water Research, Evaluation of Drainage Pipes The Center for Water Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio completed a two year study of plastic drainage pipe. They used VideoRuler along with a LazrRing unit to evaluate and measure deflection in the pipes that are used for drainage under roadways. With the measurement data generated, they were able to create cost and lifespan comparisons for the corrugated plastic culverts.
Continental Shelf Associates, Environmental Surveys
CSA utilizes Mission Manager for underwater environmental surveys. Their projects range from simple bottom surveys, to reef impact evaluation, to long term repeated studies of sensitive underwater habitats. CSA uses Mission Manager on projects utilizing both divers and ROV’s. Their sophisticated HiPack navigation system is interfaced directly to Mission Manager.
Robotic Technology researchers at Hydro Quebec have integrated Mission Manager into their extremely sophisticated system for the inspection of dams. Mission Manager serves as the main data collection system, integrating data from several instruments. HQ uses the system with an ROV to locate, measure, and map cracks on dam faces.
The Mission Manager serves to integrate several subsystems developed by HQ, including acoustic navigation, sonar imaging, and a 3D ROV operator interface.
The Byrd Polar Center at Ohio State University uses VideoRuler for underwater studies performed with an ROV. Their Deep Ocean Engineering Phantom has a pair of C-Map’s Shallow Lasers mounted to the video camera to provide measurement scaling.
NASA Zero Gravity Training Facility
Imetrix Inc. of Cataumet, MA , used C-Map System's Mission Manager as the core of a system designed to track and record the activities of astronauts in zero gravity training water tanks at the NASA facility in Huntsville, AL. The system is designed to study the usability of tools in a zero gravity environment. The Mission Manager system receives visual data from several video cameras and position information via a SNAP (by Imetrix) acoustic positioning system tracking an array of transponders on the astronaut's suit. The Mission Manager collects, records and displays the video and analytical data. It also provides the tools to accomplish video measurements and the combined analysis of all data.
Sea-Byte Systems
SeaByte Systems of Tequesta, FL, uses Mission Manager to collect and manage data from undersea environmental surveys. The Mission Manager optional mapping features are used to navigate the vessel during data collection. Typical SeaByte projects involve surveying the condition of coral reefs and other ecosystems. Video and instruments are deployed on a towed sled or robotic vehicle. Lasers are used for underwater image scaling and photo CD images are combined with video images in the Mission Manager database. In post processing the Mission Manager system is used for analyzing data, searching data for trends, comparing present and past conditions, and producing high quality interpretive maps, image prints and reports for the client.
GE Nuclear Energy
GE Nuclear Energy of San Jose, CA , owns several Mission Manager and VideoRuler systems which are used world-wide for inspection of nuclear power plants. The systems are all equipped with LazrLyne units which are used for video measurements within a few thousandths of an inch. Two Mission Manager systems are used as the primary database for inspection data at the Tokai reactors in Japan. GE uses the Mission Manager CD - ROM options to produce and distribute reports and data on CD.
USN Deep Submergence Group
The USN Deep Submergence Group in San Diego, CA, uses C-Map Systems full ocean depth lasers with video systems on a variety of deep diving manned and unmanned submersibles. They will soon be equipped with a specially modified VideoRuler system for recording data and taking measurements.
PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. of San Ramon, CA, uses VideoRuler and LazrRing for large scale surveys of gas transmission pipelines and for nuclear inspections. The LazrRing unit is used with crawling vehicles to detect pitting in hard to inspect pipes. This condition usually went undetected using convention video inspection without the LazrRing unit.
Westinghouse Hanford Company
The Westinghouse Hanford Company, operator of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in eastern Washington, uses two Mission Manager systems to conduct sensitive and tightly controlled inspections of nuclear waste storage tanks. The systems are used with LazrLyne, LazrDot, and LazrRing for precision measuring. Reports are distributed on Mission Manager CD-ROM and WHC uses a Mitsubishi dye-sublimation printer to produce high quality image prints for users.
TXDOT
Texas Department of Transportation uses several Mission Manager-PIS systems as a pavement management system. Data is collected using Mission Manager in vans equipped with 3 video cameras, "ride" sensors, rutting sensors, and GPS satellite positioning. Data is post processed and the pavement rated using a voice controlled Mission Manager-PIS post processing data workstation.
In 1997 several new instrument interfaces were created for TXDOT, giving even further data collection and management capability to their systems.
University of Texas Southwest Medical Center - Mobility Research and Assessment
The UT Medical Center uses a VideoRuler system to study the walking and mobility mechanics of patients.
VIT
Visual Inspection Technology of Flanders, NJ, uses VideoRuler, LazrLyne and LazrDot for inspection work in association with the crawling vehicles and miniature inspection cameras that they manufacture and operate. VIT is a major supplier of inspection technology and services to the Petrochemical, Power, and Nuclear Power industries.
American Divers Outfall Inspection
A VideoRuler system was used for inspection during construction of a major ocean outfall project South of San diego. The system was operated with a sophisticated robotic submarine equipped with two underwater lasers for scaling the video images and measuring the gap in joints of the large concrete coated outfall pipes.
Houston Geoscan
Houston Geoscan, of Houston, TX, uses the Map Commander system for GPS surveys of seismic prospects. The portable system is used for general guidance, survey quality control and mapping exclusion zones.
Florida Geological Survey
FGS uses the Map Commander system to map and record data related to ground water contamination in wells in the state of Florida.
For more information, contact:
cmap@cmapsystems.com
C-MAP SYSTEMS, INC.
PO BOX 2309
Red Lodge, MT 59068
Voice: 406-446-1909
Fax: 406-446-1923
