Sparton Defense and Security plans to launch new products that would revolutionize the exploration and navigation industry at the AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems North America Symposium, which is to be held in Washington D.C from August 16 to19, 2011. The company would be exhibiting its new advanced acoustic hydrophone and navigation sensors at booth #415.
Sparton's new PHOD-1 hydrophone. Credit: Business Wire
According to Cary Wood, who is CEO and President of Sparton, the navigation sensors would offer highly precise orientation and heading data, even where GPS products do not work and signals are not available. The accuracy is provided mainly due to the company’s calibration techniques and superior sensor fusion algorithms, which offer trustworthy headings for different environments and applications.
These sensors include features such as two-dimensional and three-dimensional manual calibration,complete 360 degree rollover capability, continual in-field calibration, motion stabilization, true north heading signs on the basis of magnetic variation correction; enhanced and accurate headings even in difficult magnetic surroundings, speedy initialization, complete encapsulation; and baud rates that could be selected.
Jim Lackemacher, the General Manager and Vice President of Sparton, has observed that they would be unveiling the new GEDC-6, a navigation sensor improved by the addition of gyro at the AUVSI conference. These navigation sensors would help to provide advanced in-field calibration, which would compensate the mistakes due to the changes in position in dynamic environments.
Sparton has also developed some specialty hydrophones, which are very sensitive and could be used in marine seismic acquisition systems and underwater acoustic applications. These hydrophones perform excellently in areas that have extreme fluctuations in temperature, and also applications involving high shock. The new PHOD-1 hydrophone is very useful wherever there is a need for strong and small hydrophones.