I see a screen shot of a tire on the ping sonar sales page. How did you obtain that with the speeds being so fast? It is there so I assume the ping created that image. I cannot find a way to slow mine to .00045 (example speed) as I can my Kongsberg Mesotech MS 1000 675 kHz scanning sonar. Your f…

Hi @MacGyver135 , welcome to the forum :slight_smile: [image] MacGyver135: Your frequency can scan high resolution but It seems, or I cannot find, a setting to step down the speed in which the motor turns the transducer. If speeds can be slowed please let me know how. If they cannot a software a…

I have gotten some great images with the Ping360 in certain situations, and other times it was useless except as a navigation tool. It seems to completely depend on the environment and how the ROV is positioned (and pilot skill :wink:). I made a quick demonstration video a while ago. I don’t know i…

[image] btrue: how the ROV is positioned Note that this includes distance to target, but also the pitch angle. If the sonar is angled downwards towards the front it can better image objects on the bottom (which is discussed in the Bottom Visibility section of our guide), and the steeper the a…

To address your confusion, Ideally a scanning sonar will run at very slow steps from a fixed position when a target is obtained, for my use. I own and operate a gen 1 humminbird 360 (455 kHz) and a Kongsberg Mesotech MS 1000 (675 kHz)scanning sonar. I have obtained solid images from both of victim…

Great video. That is the hands on help I was looking for. As far as not being good for SAR, that is incorrect. The resolution isn’t the concern as much as frequency and speed. Higher frequency, smaller range, lower frequency greater range. The image resolution will be there if the frequency and…

[image] MacGyver135: Ideally a scanning sonar will run at very slow steps from a fixed position when a target is obtained, for my use. I think I was confused by your terminology. If I understand correctly you were interested in “fine angular resolution”, which can be correlated with but is no…

We learn the terminology on the disciplines we work with. Between commercial survey work and SAR work I have learned that vernacular. The Blue ROV will be used for SAR work, mostly body recoveries, in tandem with the Mesotech. Being able to cleanly image the victim is my goal. Your gradian 1 loo…

[IMG_6998] Thought people might like to see for context, this is one of the first scanning sonars I had to deal with way back when Mesotech started, (I think Bob made this in his garage!!!) -its a 961 mesotech that had a HUGE black box controller (which I still have somewhere!) - its resolution wa…

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EliotBR (Eliot) July 21, 2025, 2:38am 11

It’s been a while!

Just popping back into this thread because we’ve significantly improved the scanning speed of the Ping360, by reducing the communication overhead (so same resolution, just faster!)

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