Below are links to the presentation abstracts and speakers’ biographies for Day 1 of Remote Hydrography 2024.
Keynote Speaker
- AI & Geospatial – looking beyond the hype, Ed Parsons, Geospatial Technologist, Google
Session 1 : Extending Platform Capability
- Fulfilling the potential of USVs will require an evolution of mindset – but everyone will benefit, Michael King, Sulmara
- Enabling USVs to use the same equipment as traditional vessels, Shepard M. Smith, Joe Wheeler, XOCEAN
- Developments in mini-MASS to conduct Hydrographic and Geophysical surveys for offshore energy, Kerry Beckwith, Unmanned Survey Solutions (USS)
- Streamlining shallow water pipeline survey with Unmanned Surface Vessels, David Rennie, Unique Group
Session 2 : Technology
- Cortix, a vessel automation solution enabling remote operations, Adrien Barral, Exail
- Remote surveying with real-time situational awareness from shore, Terje Haga Pedersen, Colleen Peters, Jose Cordero, Kongsberg
- Compute, Cloud and Storage – challenges and solutions to next-generation offshore acquisition, Darren Briggs, Jon Moore, ET Works
- How developments in simultaneous technology strands have enabled the barriers to wide scope USV operations to be overcome, Andre Fabik, L3Harris
Session 3 : Regulations & Risk in Remote Hydrography
- Opening presentation by Session Chair, Cathal Leigh-Doyle, Stephenson & Harwood LLP
- Autonomy and regulating the future, Gwilym Stone, Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA)
- UK legislation on mini-MASS – one size fits all, James Williams, Unmanned Survey Solutions (USS)/FAST Cluster
- The regulatory and risk environment around USVs – an operators perspective, Nicolas Gracieux, Exail