Tritonia

29/10/2026

🌊 When the seabed looks featureless, how do you ensure you collect the right data to build a reliable 3D model?

Last week, we showed how Tritonia Scientific’s modified ROV followed an autopiloted survey pattern over a rocky reef with approximately 7 metres of elevation change.

This second video highlights a different challenge from the same environmental survey at an active fish farm on Scotland’s west coast: a largely featureless seabed.

Here, autopiloting was essential to maintaining a precise, repeatable survey pattern and collecting the overlapping imagery required for reliable 3D photogrammetric model generation.

As with the rocky reef survey, the ROV operated at a controlled speed of 0.25 m/s, maintaining a target altitude of 1 metre above the seabed and, importantly, horizontal positioning so accurate as to enable precise parallel survey lines that are fundamental to achieving 100% coverage.

🎥 The animated ROV follows the actual flight pattern flown during the survey, and the seabed shown is the actual 3D model generated from the collected imagery.

Across eight plots and more than 3,100 m² of seabed, automated missions enabled systematic, planned coverage, helping minimise gaps and provide the consistent image overlap needed for continuous digital models. The other survey areas presented seabed conditions between the two contrasting extremes shown in our videos.

The resulting models are hosted on Hydrophis, Tritonia’s underwater data management platform, where users can explore and measure the seabed directly.
This work is part of four years of R&D, supported by HIE, the Sustainable Aquaculture Innovation Cluster (SAIC), CivTech, the UK Seafood Innovation Fund (SIF), FHF and Innovate UK, alongside the practical support and collaboration of salmon producers.

Different seabed conditions. The same principle: systematic surveying and consistent data collection are fundamental to reliable 3D modelling.

23/10/2026

🌊 7 metres of seabed elevation change. One metre altitude. A fully autopiloted survey relying on consistent vertical positioning accuracy.

In July, Tritonia Scientific completed its first full aquaculture-site survey using 100% autopiloted ROV operations, covering eight plots and more than 3,100 m² of seabed at an active fish farm on Scotland’s west coast.

This video shows one of the most challenging areas surveyed: a rocky reef with approximately 7 metres of elevation change.

Our modified ROV followed the actual prescribed flight pattern at a controlled speed of 0.25 m/s, maintaining a target altitude of 1 metre above the seabed while continuously tracking and adjusting for changes in terrain.

🎥 What you see is the real survey in action. The animated ROV follows the actual flight pattern flown to collect the overlapping imagery needed to generate the 3D model. The rocky reef shown is the actual seabed model reconstructed from that survey data, not a simulated representation.

Automated missions provide systematic, planned coverage compared with manually driven tracks, helping ensure consistent image overlap and minimise gaps in the data used to generate continuous 3D seabed models.

The resulting georeferenced model is hosted on Hydrophis, our underwater data management platform, where users can explore the seabed and take measurements directly from the model.

This achievement represents a major delivery from four years of R&D, supported by grant funding from HIE, the Sustainable Aquaculture Innovation Cluster (SAIC), CivTech, the UK Seafood Innovation Fund (SIF), FHF and Innovate UK, alongside the valuable practical support and collaboration of salmon producers.

From underwater survey to measurable digital model — making the seabed easier to see, understand and monitor.

15/10/2026

In August and September, our MD, Dr Martin Sayer, was invited to speak at two international events, presenting on the potential advances in seabed surveying and environmental monitoring that can be achieved through georeferenced 3D photogrammetry (G3DP), with a particular focus on how automated survey data collection can enhance and accelerate the generation of detailed 3D seabed models.

The first event, held in Oslo and sponsored by the Norwegian Seafood Research Fund (FHF), focused on the potential for G3DP to be incorporated as a complementary tool for environmental quality assessment in the forthcoming revision of the Norwegian Standard NS9410. Dr Sayer highlighted how automated ROV survey methodologies can provide more consistent and comprehensive image acquisition, enhancing the quality of G3DP outputs while significantly reducing the time required to collect the underlying survey data.

The second event was held in Ankara as part of an EU MarDA training week, hosted by the Turkish Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change. Dr Sayer delivered a series of presentations examining the potential application of G3DP methodologies to habitat mapping and environmental quality assessment programmes, again highlighting the benefits of combining automated survey data collection with G3DP to accelerate data acquisition and the production of detailed, georeferenced 3D models.

Together, these invitations reflect the growing international interest in G3DP as a more detailed, quantitative and data-driven approach to seabed surveying and environmental monitoring, and reinforce Tritonia Scientific’s position at the forefront of innovation in this emerging field.

23/06/2026

We're delighted to announce that Tritonia Scientific has won the Innovation Award at the 2026 Aquaculture Awards for our pioneering application of georeferenced 3D photogrammetry and digital seabed modelling in aquaculture.

By creating high-resolution, fully georeferenced 3D digital twins of the seabed and delivering them through our Hydrophis platform, we're transforming how aquaculture sites are surveyed, monitored, and managed. This technology provides operators and regulators with unprecedented environmental insight, supporting better site selection, stronger environmental monitoring, greater regulatory transparency, and more sustainable aquaculture practices.

Thank you to our team, clients, partners, and collaborators who have helped make this achievement possible.

Read more at https://tritonia.scot/tritonia-scientific-wins-innovation-award-at-the-2026-aquacultureawards/

12/06/2026

After nearly five years in development — and following a series of successful trial deployments last month — Tritonia yesterday took the plunge and, for the first time, used fully autonomous ROV navigation control to capture seabed imagery around an operational fish farm site.

Using fully automated, georeferenced “lawnmower” flight patterns combined with terrain-following functionality, the system collected image data with the accuracy and precision required to generate detailed digital 3D models of large seabed areas. A key breakthrough has been the automation of altitude hold, removing the need for the pilot to constantly adjust the vehicle’s height above the seabed. This not only significantly reduces pilot workload, but also delivers more consistent image capture and improved survey quality.

While further work is still needed to improve robustness and operational reliability before the system can be rolled out commercially at scale, we believe this marks a significant step forward in how underwater survey and environmental monitoring can be conducted in the future using cost-effective, off-the-shelf technologies.

If you would like to learn more, please visit us on stand B21 at Aquaculture UK in Glasgow next week, 16–17 June.

26/05/2026

We're exhibiting at Aquaculture UK on 16-17 June 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland! Register for your free ticket and join us there. https://invt.io/1ixbolrh97o

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05/05/2026

We're excited to share some brilliant news — Tritonia Scientific has been named a finalist in the Innovation category at the Aquaculture Awards 2026! 🎉🌊

We've been shortlisted for our work developing georeferenced 3D photogrammetry and digital seabed modelling for aquaculture — technology that gives farm operators and regulators an unprecedented view of what's happening on the seabed, delivered as interactive 3D digital twins through our Hydrophis platform.

It's been a long road getting here, and we're incredibly proud of the whole Tritonia team for making it possible. From our ROV survey crews to the people behind Hydrophis, this recognition belongs to all of them.

The awards ceremony is on Tuesday 16 June — keep your fingers crossed for us! 🤞