Navico Holding As

Navico, Inc.

Thomas E H Isaacson

Mark N Harnett

Paul Butterworth

Alan Peter Davis

Jake Hawkins

Geoffrey Morrish

Jeremiah D Clark

Matthew W Laster

Andrew Corbett

Kristopher C Snyder

William B Newberry, Jr

Alan Islas Cital

Shauna Reed

Mark Griffith

David M Simons

Many different types of systems are utilized or tasks are performed in a marine environment. The present invention provides various configurations of unmanned vehicles, or drones, that can be operated and/or controlled for such systems or tasks. One or more unmanned vehicles can be integrated with a dedicated marine electronic device of a marine vessel for autonomous control and operation. Additionally or alternatively, the unmanned vehicle can be manually remote operated during use in the marine environment. Such unmanned vehicles can be utilized in many different marine environment systems or tasks, including, for example, navigation, sonar, radar, search and rescue, video streaming, alert functionality, among many others. However, as contemplated by the present invention, the marine environment provides many unique challenges that may be accounted for with operation and control of an unmanned vehicle.

Unmanned vehicle control and operation in a marine environment

Many different types of systems are utilized and tasks are performed in a marine environment. The present invention provides various configurations of castable devices that can be operated and/or controlled for such systems or tasks. One or more castable devices can be integrated with a transducer assembly, such as a phased array, that emits sonar beams and receives sonar returns from the underwater environment. Processing circuitry may receive the sonar returns, process the sonar returns, generate an image, and transmit the image to a display.

Castable sonar devices and operations in a marine environment

Unmanned vehicle control and sonar operation in a marine environment

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Thomas E H Isaacson