With under 20 percent of the Earth’s oceans mapped, a lot of new solutions are popping up to manage the terabytes of data being generated with every pass of a survey ship.
Terradepth, an ocean data-as-a-service company, this week announced a strategic partnership with hydrographic survey software company Hypack. This new collaboration will enable surveyors to run Hypack’s software directly in the cloud through Terradepth’s Absolute Ocean platform, significantly streamlining the hydrographic survey workflow.
The partnership addresses a critical challenge in the hydrographic surveying industry. Traditionally, surveyors process data locally on laptops and face significant hurdles in receiving the data in a timely manner and then sharing that data with end users when processed, often relying on slow and inefficient methods such as file hosting services like DropBox or physical hard drive shipments.
By integrating Hypack software with Terradepth’s cloud-native Absolute Ocean platform, hydrographic surveyors can now process ocean data in near-real time during surveys and seamlessly contextualize it with existing geophysical data. This integration dramatically reduces the time from data collection to actionable insights, shrinking lead times from weeks to hours.
According to Terradepth CEO Joe Wolfel:
“We are very excited to share our latest innovation in ocean data processing with the integration of Absolute Ocean and HYPACK’s sonar data software. Our goal is to revolutionize the hydrographic industry, making ocean data more accessible, efficient, and actionable than ever before, and this partnership is a great example of this.”
(Featured Image credit: Dan Fornari/WHOI)