Due to natural variations in fluid characteristics (such as water temperature, salinity and density) and the presence of small in-water reflectors (such as moving currents, marine life, and bubbles), the underwater environment is acoustically dynamic and often unpredictable. That’s why we at FarSounder have committed ourselves to building incrementally smarter tools to help keep our customers on the edge of technology and as far from harm’s way as possible. As a result, we’re happy to give a sneak peek of our most intelligent underwater collision avoidance system yet, capable of stabilizing in-water targets detected by the sonar and providing you with the most accurate representation of the water in front of your vessel to date. Our new stabilization feature relies on tracking in-water targets detected across multiple transmit/receive cycles (i.e. “pings”). By grouping these detections and monitoring their movements over time, we can use that information to both filter out unreliable targets, and fill in gaps where we are confident targets should be seen.