V15ION turns underwater sound into decisions: near-real-time orca presence alerts, detection-range maps that update as ocean noise changes, and defensible estimates of how many animals are present. Built on wave physics, array processing and acoustic imaging.
Operators and regulators need clear answers to two questions: is a whale here now, and how much of the area can we actually hear?
Four services built on one idea: before you trust a detection, or the absence of one, you need to know how well you could hear.
A five-stage pipeline, from raw hydrophone audio to decisions.
Currently in development. This preview uses simulated data to show how detections, locations and coverage come together in one view.
Starting in the Salish Sea, with methods that transfer to any hydrophone array and any vocal species.
Six capabilities, each grounded in published methods and tested on real field data.
V15ION was founded by a PhD geophysicist with industrial experience in acoustic imaging, fields where pulling faint signals out of noisy wavefields is the daily work. Listening for whales is the same physics: a wave, a medium, an array of sensors, and an inverse problem to solve.
We bring that discipline to marine conservation: calibrated measurements, stated uncertainty, and methods that stand up to scientific review.
Protecting endangered marine mammals and enabling safer maritime operations are not competing goals — they are the same goal, solved by the same technology.
Passive listening only. V15ION adds zero acoustic energy to the ocean. Our hydrophones listen — they never transmit.
Built on published science. Our methods follow peer-reviewed practice, and we report accuracy the way scientists do: precision, recall and false alarms per hour, on local data.
Uncertainty, stated. Every estimate we deliver comes with its uncertainty and the assumptions behind it, so you know how far to trust it.
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