News from our employee Dr. Christian Mueller, currently supporting the AWI "Polar 6" research aircraft campaign in Antarctica, cited from antarcticstation.org:"On December 20th, while on mission aboard AWI’s Polar 6 aircraft over the Princess Ragnhild Coast, geophysicist Christian Müller from Fielax (a company supporting the survey), looked out of the window of the aircraft and spotted an unusual formation in the ice over the King Baudoin Ice Shelf."Read more at antarcticstation.org or at spiegel.de.
Author: FIELAX GmbH
RDI ADCP data averaging and conversion tool
FIELAX developed a software tool called "ADCP-to-DSHIP" that continuously acquires data from a ship-board RDI ADCP and calculates average values to be sended over e. g. to a data acquisition system.The software has been installed on RV "Polarstern" on behalf of Reederei F. Laeisz GmbH. Read more
Research aircrafts Polar 5 & 6
For the Alfred-Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven we worked at, with and in the polar research aircrafts Polar 5 and Polar 6 throughout the years 2008 to 2016. We planned, documented, supervised and/or did technical installations of scientific equipment and experiments. Read more
Echosounding support for RV Heincke and RV Mya II
FS Heincke and FS Maya II are research ships of AWI which have a large range of different scientific sonars. Both have multi-beam echo sounders, Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) and other multi frequency echosounders. On behalf of the AWI we support many of those systems which means system maintenance and the education and the support of their users.
On RV FS Heincke we take care of the:
- Multibeam echosounder Kongsberg EM710
- Sub bottom echosounder Innomar SES2000
- ADCP RDI Workhorse Mariner 600 kHz (mobile use in moon pool)
- ADCP RDI Ocean Surveyor 150 kHz (hull-mounted)
- SV probe Valeport Midas
Before the campaigns we offer user trainings. Please contact us duly before your cruise to make an appointment.
FIELAX short manuals and manufacturer's documentation is available in the FS Heincke - Geräteakte.
On RV Mya II we take care of the:
- multibeam echosounder L3 ELAC SeaBeam 1185
- multi frequence singlebeam echosounder BioSonics DT-X
- ADCP RDI Workhorse Mariner 600 kHz
- SV probe Sea & Sun CTD90M
Please contact us for a user training. and for FIELAX short manuals and manufacturer's documentation of the instruments.
CICESE aquires measuring system
The 'Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Education superior de Ensenada Baja California' (CICESE) in Mexico has purchased a complete heat flow measuring system from FIELAX. The HeatFlowProbe was dispatched today. The picture shows the strength member on its rigging trolleys during loading in a 40'-container. The HeatFlow probe has an active length of 6m (resulting in a total length of about 7,5m) to penetrate through the seasonally influenced upper sediment layers to determine the pure geothermal heat flow.