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Water Sensing Projects

THURN are proud partners in various projects focusing on developing new technologies for sensing in and around water. With experience working on diverse projects funded by Horizon Europe, Innovate UK and UKDI, we are excited to hear about opportunities to collaborate on new projects involving sensor technologies used in and around water; we have particular expertise in remote and autonomous platforms including Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs or drones) and Uncrewed Surface Vessels (USVs or remote boats).

Ongoing and past projects:

UAWOS Project image including water sensing drone UAV for bathymetry and surface velocity radar

UAWOS

The Unmanned Aerial Water Observing System (UAWOS) project brings together scientific and technical partners from across Europe to develop contactless sensing systems which combine UAV based measurement with Earth Observation Satellites to calculate river discharge in remote and ungauged locations.

THURN’s role in the project has been the adaptation of a doppler laser non-contact water velocity sensor for UAV deployment as well as being a commercial partner, helping to bring the new technologies to market. As such, we are pleased to be able to supply the full suite of UAWOS technologies including a compatible UAV with all required control hardware and software.

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Citizen PAM

Thurn are pleased to have lead this project to engage citizen scientists in the exploration of what underwater passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) can tell us about the health of freshwater ecosystems. In parallel to the development of our ultra-high-definition hydrophones and PAM systems, this project has brought invaluable insight a variety of underwater habitats. Meanwhile, with support from a range of institutions including the Alan Turing Institute, Environmental Insight Partners (University of Reading), University of East Anglia and University College Cork, we are developing AI analysis software to derive environmental and biodiversity data from long-term hydrophone deployments,

PYRAMID Reference Architecture DASA RAF Rapid Capability Office Competition image

PYRAMID

Funded by UK Defence Innovation (formerly the Defence and Security Accelerator - DASA), Thurn are adopting the PYRAMID Reference Architecture in our software development for avionics systems. By creating PRA compliant software for our UAV based sensors, we aim to benefit from the associated modularity and interoperability, enabling collaboration and capability exchange. While Thurn do not develop specific military equipment, we see many benefits from employing the PRA in dual use systems with defence applications and would welcome opportunities to work with other partners on projects utilising the PRA.