Over the last two decades AIVL has developed and built innovative deep-sea imaging and telemetry systems for use in ROVS, AUVs, manned and unmanned aerial vehicles, diver operated systems as well as deep diving human occupied vehicles. AIVL’s precision imaging systems have been used all around the world in everything from underwater scientific and archaeological surveys to high altitude animal hea
lth assessments and the documentation of rocket launches. In addition to supporting the scientific community, the imagery collected has been used for educational exhibits in numerous museums, science centers and repurposed for various television and film edutainment programs.
-Maintains a large inventory of field-ready imaging systems; including specialized aerial and underwater systems for use on aircraft, submarines, remotely operated vehicles, autonomous underwater vehicles, and diver operated platforms
-Is a complete post-production facility
-Leaders in the field of large scale image mosaics, specifically those of deep sea shipwrecks including the RMS Titanic
-Has the ability to produce and analyze digital datasets and maps
-Has one of the world’s largest high resolution image collections for natural history, scientific, and marine archeological images
Collaborators:
National Park Service SRC
NOAA
Sony
Fujinon
All imagery © AIVL, WHOI. Contributing photographers include:
Evan Kovacs
Brett Seymour
Becky Kagan
Maryann Kovacs
Luis Lamar
Tamara Thomsen
Richard Stevenson
Naomi Blinick
John Roark
Steve Atkinson
