About Martek Marine Ltd
Martek Marine is a world authority on maritime drone applications, offering ‘best in class’ platforms, payloads and software to deliver complete disruptive drone solutions.
The company is currently working with a number of major classification societies, flag administrations and major ship operators helping them develop and refine their own drone strategies to revolutionise their businesses and disrupt the market.
The company has been awarded a ground breaking 2-year Remotely Piloted Aircraft Services (RPAS) contract from the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). The services offered will fulfil part of the world’s largest ever civilian maritime drone contract.
Martek’s continued contractual success follows the company being awarded a previous €10M contract by EMSA for ship engine emission monitoring using RPAS in November 2016. Martek’s sister company COPTRZ provided consultancy on both contracts.
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timeframe, and of course there is also a significant reduction in risk. Technicians only need to access the assets that require attention following the survey, eliminating any unnecessary working at height.
that time down to just 45 minutes, which is up to 13 times faster than traditional methods, achieving a minimum of 10 turbines a day.
As a maritime company, Martek is used to surveying and inspecting all manner of structures on land and out at sea, anywhere in the world. The company uses a drone fleet that’s specifically designed for turbine blade inspections onshore or offshore, and it outperforms the leading inspection drone. Martek has surveying wind turbines down to a fine art, with qualified and trained pilots quickly and accurately identifying and assessing faults. Traditional surveying requires turbines to be offline for two hours up to a day, but Martek’s inspection process has reduced
Following the inspection, the client can access the data through Martek’s secure, cloud-based asset management portal where they can download a detailed PDF report, as well as access raw survey data. Because Martek uses trained blade experts with significant experience in assessing and repairing turbine blades, survey findings are always accurate and actionable. Indeed, we can report on up to 25 turbines a day.
The benefits of using drones for blade inspections are wide-ranging. In addition to the obvious benefit of a quicker and more flexible mobilisation, more accurate results are available in a quicker
FULLY AUTONOMOUS DRONES: THE FUTURE OF MARINE SURVEYING?
As drone technology gathers momentum, leading drone experts are suggesting that fully autonomous drones are the “next big thing” coming our way when it comes to marine surveying.
When you think about it, it’s not dissimilar to a commercial jet flying on autopilot! Fully autonomous drones are pre-loaded with a 3D model of the ship. This allows the drone to autonomously work its way around the vessel, stopping at points of interest to obtain more detailed video, or image data.
Advancing this further, it wouldn’t be unrealistic to think that the drone will be designed to create its own 3D map of the vessel, before carrying out the survey independently.
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