SMNG has a Radionavigation Department, which has been providing positioning services of the company vessels and its customers with navigation-geodetic equipment (NGE), to be used in offshore geophysical operations both in the Russian Seas and worldwide.
Since 1991, its experienced staff has provided DGPS services. They render Differential GPS services in the Barents and Kara Seas and apply a static differential station located to the north of Kolguev island. A mobile differential station NDS-200 can also be used when performing local shooting.
The Radionavigation Department specialists have worked out an integrated navigation system RGP-2D, specially designed for managing 2D shooting. The system is protected by patent. INS RGP-2D was applied for the first time in 1994 when shooting a survey for JSC "Rosshelf" (in the Pechora Sea).To successfully identify position beyond the stations coverage, INS RGP-2D has been integrated with DGPS systems, produced by FUGRO and RACAL. These two companies provide DGPS services throughout the world.
Furthermore, RGP has designed program packages for processing navigation data, pre-plotting and producing report maps.
RGP has highly qualified specialists on the staff, who have a wide experience in marine geodesics in terms of performing offshore 2D and 3D geophysical surveys.