Saildrone Autonomous Vehicle Maps Seafloor on Maiden Voyage
A Saildrone-built autonomous maritime vehicle mapped 6,400 square nautical miles of ocean floor during a 28-day proof of concept voyage from San Francisco to Honolulu. The Surveyor unmanned surface platform traversed 2,250 nautical miles for its initial deep-ocean mapping mission, the company said Thursday. A team of Saildrone, the University of New Hampshire and the […] More