Moving Vessel Profiler

The Moving Vessel Profiler helps...

Performance Predictability

Increase Weather Window

Project Profitability

What is a Moving Vessel Profiler?

The Moving Vessel Profiler (MVP) is the market leader in underway profiling systems. The world's only automated, real-time solution is backed by over 20 years of experience and thousands of successful surveys. 

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moving vessel profiler for the University of Hawaii being deployed

Why choose the Moving Vessel Profiler?

Minimize Survey Costs

Continuous and autonomous data collection without stopping the vessel.

Collect Multiparameter Data

Able to collect a wide variety of data, satisfying several scientific objectives simultaneously.

Output Real-time Data

Real-time SV to provide ray tracing corrections and real-time CT for backscatter data.

Collect Vertical Profiles

Continuous data collection while underway, giving full water column characterization.

Automated Bottom Tracking

Characterize the entire water column while also safely avoiding the seafloor.

Save Time

No retrieving of towed equipment, such as a sidescan or magnetometer, is needed.

mvp30-350 on the open ocean collecting data


Suitable for Any Situation

AML Oceanographic’s Moving Vessel Profiler is proven to remove both the technical and financial unpredictability associated with survey operations. The MVP allows for frequent, high density profiles continuously and in real time. The MVP is commonly used for the following applications:

  • Hydrographic and oceanographic surveying
  • Dredging
  • Seafloor mapping

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How can the MVP make a difference?

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