{"id":270816,"date":"2026-06-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/kongsberg-advances-seabed-mapping-technology-through-nautilus-expedition\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T00:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T04:50:12","slug":"kongsberg-advances-seabed-mapping-technology-through-nautilus-expedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/kongsberg-advances-seabed-mapping-technology-through-nautilus-expedition\/","title":{"rendered":"KONGSBERG advances seabed mapping technology through Nautilus expedition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/container-news.com\/kongsberg-advances-seabed-mapping-technology-through-nautilus-expedition\/\">KONGSBERG advances seabed mapping technology through Nautilus expedition<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/container-news.com\/kongsberg-advances-seabed-mapping-technology-through-nautilus-expedition\/\">https:\/\/container-news.com\/kongsberg-advances-seabed-mapping-technology-through-nautilus-expedition\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-12 00:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"container-news.com\">container-news.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">KONGSBERG and the Ocean Exploration Trust (OET) have launched a new expedition to map unexplored areas of the Central Pacific seafloor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The Pacific Mapping (NA178) mission runs from 10 to 24 June aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The expedition marks the first deployment of KONGSBERG\u2019s EM 304 MKII multibeam echo sounder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">KONGSBERG has placed three engineers onboard Nautilus for the 14-day mission. The team will use the expedition to test and refine the system in real-world conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Large areas of the world\u2019s oceans remain unmapped at high resolution. Deep-water environments remain particularly challenging due to cost, access and technical limitations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The EM 304 MKII is designed to improve mapping efficiency. The system operates at full ocean depth and combines wide coverage with high-resolution data collection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">According to OET, the technology will help researchers map complex seabed features such as canyons, seamounts, ridges, trenches and underwater volcanoes in greater detail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The new system is expected to double the area surveyed compared to previous equipment while reducing operational time and costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The expedition also serves as a live testing platform for KONGSBERG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Engineers will analyze data collected across different seabed environments to improve both hardware performance and software functionality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Colleen Peters, Product Manager Mapping Software at KONGSBERG, said real-world testing is essential to validate system performance under the same conditions faced by customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">She added that Nautilus provides an ideal environment for testing new technologies and evaluating how users interact with mapping software.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The project forms part of a broader collaboration between KONGSBERG, OET and the U.S. Navy\u2019s Office of Naval Research, which supported the vessel\u2019s recent technology upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>KONGSBERG said the partnership will help accelerate innovation, improve seabed mapping capabilities and support future&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/container-news.com\/kongsberg-advances-seabed-mapping-technology-through-nautilus-expedition\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KONGSBERG advances seabed mapping technology through Nautilus expedition https:\/\/container-news.com\/kongsberg-advances-seabed-mapping-technology-through-nautilus-expedition\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-12 00:00:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":270817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/container-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/32ed9322-d334-4122-87ee-91a17849d115-1024x576.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-270816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270818,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270816\/revisions\/270818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}