Omniscan 3D

Introducing Omniscan 3D, coming soon to the Omniscan family of imaging sonars. It retains the same high resolution image quality of its Omniscan predecessors, plus it generates a full point cloud, and the Omniscan image is rendered on a mesh in its true 3D location rather than on a flat plane.

Omniscan 3D operates at 450 kHz and shares the same fan beam transducers as the corresponding Omniscan 450 products. In addition, Omniscan 3D incorporates a 16 channel receive-only transducer to calculate the vertical angle of each target. You might say it’s somewhere between an interferometric side scan and a multibeam echo sounder.

Full Point Cloud

With high resolution image data and slant range from the side scan transducer, plus target angle from the receive array, a full set of points is created along each ping, building a full point cloud data set as the scan progresses via rotation and/or translation.

High Resolution Image on True 3D Mesh

SonarView calculates a true 3D mesh representing the bottom profile, and renders the high resolution Omniscan image on this mesh at its true location in 3D space.

Coming Q3 2025?

We are slightly behind schedule. Mainly because some people (even engineers) in the Northern Hemisphere like to take vacations in July and August. Who knew? But we still do expect to deliver some beta units in September and full availability in Q4.

Check out the latest (July) images from the current 2nd generation development hardware of a scan along the shore of Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota. In addition to the side scan image rendered in true 3D position, the rendered water column points clearly show the dock pilings and the line of vegetation in the shallower areas.