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The Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Acoustics-led project team is the Chinese research-and-engineering team publicly credited with developing and maturing a domestic deep-water and full-ocean-depth multibeam sounding system. Official Chinese science-program reporting identifies the Institute of Acoustics as the lead organization for the later full-ocean-depth engineering and application-demonstration project, building on an earlier 863 Program deep-water multibeam effort.
1 weaponsThe project team sits inside China's state research system rather than a conventional defense manufacturer. The Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences is a comprehensive acoustics and information-processing research institute founded in 1964, with research areas that include underwater acoustics, underwater detection, marine acoustics technology, signal processing, acoustic transducers, and related system-integration work.
Public program records describe a progression from prototype development to engineering application. In 2014, China's Ministry of Science and Technology reported acceptance of the 863 Program deep-water multibeam sounding-system project after the team produced a domestic prototype with an 11,000 m maximum detection depth and sea trials on the Shiyan 3 research vessel. In 2018, the China 21st Century Agenda Management Center reported technical acceptance of the full-ocean-depth engineering and application-demonstration project led by the Institute of Acoustics, covering 20-11,000 m seabed-mapping work and more than 6,000 km of demonstration survey lines.
The catalog connection is therefore a state research-institute production and integration relationship for hydrographic sonar equipment. The connected system is support equipment for ocean mapping and survey work, with public sourcing centered on development, acceptance, and survey-system fit rather than combat employment.
Official Chinese science-program reporting credits the Institute of Acoustics-led effort with the domestic deep-water and full-ocean-depth multibeam sounding-system work that underpins the connected catalog record.
Sources: MOST: Deep-water multibeam system acceptance, ACCA21: Full-ocean-depth multibeam acceptance, Connected deep-water multibeam catalog recordThe Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences was formally established in 1964 as a national acoustics research institute, with later public descriptions emphasizing acoustics, information processing, underwater acoustics, and underwater detection as core research areas.
Sources: UCAS: Institute of Acoustics overview, IOA CAS: Institute overview
China's Ministry of Science and Technology reported acceptance of the 863 Program deep-water multibeam sounding-system project, describing a domestic prototype with an 11,000 m maximum detection depth and Shiyan 3 sea-trial work.
Sources: MOST: Deep-water multibeam system acceptance
The China 21st Century Agenda Management Center reported technical acceptance of the full-ocean-depth multibeam engineering and application-demonstration project led by the Institute of Acoustics, covering 20-11,000 m operation and more than 6,000 km of application-demonstration survey lines.
Sources: ACCA21: Full-ocean-depth multibeam acceptance
The China Society article on Haixun 08 described the vessel carrying a 10,000 m-capable deep-water multibeam sounding system in a GONDOLA structure with medium- and shallow-water multibeam systems for full-ocean-area surveying.
Sources: China Society: Haixun 08 survey equipment
Public sourcing identifies an Institute of Acoustics-led research-and-engineering project team, not a standalone commercial company. Official Chinese science-program and institute sources support the organization and system-development context; conflict-use claims are not made here.
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