| Sol No.: |
Navy SBIR FY2012.1 |
| Topic No.: |
N121-048 |
| Topic Title: |
Embedded Sensors with Low Power Telemetry for Towed Arrays |
| Proposal No.: |
N121-048-0611 |
| Firm: |
Progeny Systems Corporation
9500 Innovation Drive
Manassas, Virginia 20110 |
| Contact: |
Dave Baird |
| Phone: |
(801) 359-4566 |
| Web Site: |
www.progeny.net |
| Abstract: |
This topic seeks the development of innovative concepts that can increase the number of hydrophones and telemetry channels per unit length while simultaneously achieving a very small form factor (i.e., the length/diameter requirement). This means that the telemetry electronics need to be significantly smaller than current designs. As such, the degree of miniaturization of the diameter and length of the embedded sensor and telemetry should be a significant part of any innovative concept developed. |
| Benefits: |
Towed low power/low noise acoustic sensors would be of great interest to the seismic oil and natural gas exploration industries. Low power, spatially oversampled sensors can be used to increase survey speeds (and thus reduce costs) for sub bottom mapping in oil exploration and other water-borne geophysical applications. |