Episode 22 - Chesapeake Technology - supporting Seabed 2030 & the global mapping community

Chesapeake Technology is one of our newest MoU partners and in Episode 22 of the Seabed 2030 Podcast, Head of Partnerships Stephen Hall interviews company President Evan Reinsberg who you can contact directly via the link here Chesapeake Technology is a leader in ocean geophysical and seafloor mapping software, serving defense, government, academic, and commercial marine survey customers worldwide. Their flagship product, SonarWiz 8, is the industry-standard desktop platform for hydrographic data acquisition, processing, and mapping. SonarWiz unifies multi-sensor data — sidescan sonar, sub-bottom profiling, bathymetry, and magnetometers — into a single GIS environment, and has set the standard for quality, simplicity, and workflow efficiency across the marine survey industry.SonarWiz Fathom extends the platform to the cloud, bringing the same trusted processing capabilities into a modern, collaborative environment. Fathom enables distributed teams to ingest, process, review, and deliver survey data from anywhere, with scalable cloud compute, role-based access, and streamlined deliverable generation — purpose-built for today's larger datasets, faster turnarounds, and distributed survey operations.Chesapeake Technology's customers include the world's leading navies, academic and research institutions, commercial survey companies, government agencies, and defence contractors worldwide.Private sector companies like Chesapeake Technology are key parts of our seabed mapping community, providing the software solutions essential for delivering the global map of the ocean, and we're delighted to welcome Evan and his colleagues as Seabed 2030 Partners. We'll be back in June with a special World Ocean Day episode featuring Dr Dawn Wright. Find out more about us at www.seabed2030.org, contact Steve via the link above with any questions, feedback, or to ask to be featured in a future episode.With thanks to Emily Boddy for music and intro/outro narration.Copyright 2026 Seabed 2030 #hydrospatial Revealing Hidden Depths - the Seabed 2030 Podcast Find out more about our project at www.seabed2030.org Brought to you by the Nippon Foundation and GEBCO