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Why Benthic Spectral?
We can deliver deep ocean, underwater hyperspectral imaging solutions for your project today.
The challenges posed by deep-ocean UHI are significant.
Our innovations, AI enhancements, and patent-pending technologies have made us first-to-market just as the Blue Economy is coming into its own.
Searching at depths of up to 6000 m has been done with acoustic and multi-beam sonar, traditional RGB and Time-of-Flight cameras, and by bringing samples from the bottom to the topside. These conventional methods are time-consuming, costly, and often destructive.
Our 6000m pressure-rated vessel housing for our Hyperspectral Imaging Systems, variable-temperature LED lighting systems, and RGB & ToF camera systems gets us to the sea floor.
Our patent-pending variable-temperature LED lighting systems work with an array of LEDs. LEDs have different spectral emissions. To achieve different light temperatures, individual LEDs are remotely switched on and off. By adjusting the light to maximize refraction back to the hyperspectral imaging system, we're able to obtain high-quality, in-situ spectral data cubes for analysis.
Which is where our AI/ML-enhanced learning process comes in. By training AI on spectral data libraries from the USGS and universities, we can, in real time, identify sea floor materials and compositions at a pixel level if needed. For marine minerals such as polymetallic nodules, we can crush nodules on the sea floor with a manipulator and scan their contents.
And all of this can be done at speeds up to 3 knots per hour. When a sample is required, we can add it to the basket, mark its location, keep surveying, and bring up multiple samples at once, all to save time, labor, and money.
