Bathymetry

This first-of-its-kind acoustic bathymetry mission will test the ability of Saildrone USVs to map the US exclusive economic zone off Alaska’s North Slope.

Saildrone partnered with the University of Southern Mississippi and NOAA to complete our first shallow-water multibeam bathymetry mission in the Gulf of Mexico.

Hint: A fleet of autonomous ocean drones collecting unprecedented amounts of data.

The two-month mission using the new Saildrone Voyager is in support of the NOAA deep-sea coral survey.

The former director of the USM Hydrographic Science Research Center, Brian Connon will lead Saildrone’s Ocean Mapping division.

Saildrone USVs can not only significantly reduce the cost of ocean mapping at scale, but they can also more easily and efficiently reach the most remote corners of the ocean.

The 65-foot Surveyor is designed for deep ocean mapping and maritime security missions.

The Mobile, AL-based shipbuilder will manufacture Saildrone’s 65-foot USV.

Saildrone’s Arctic fleet has begun to map the 20-meter and 50-meter contour lines from Point Hope to the Canadian border.

Four saildrones sailed 8,000 nautical miles round trip from San Francisco to the Canadian border to collect bathymetry data off Alaska’s North Slope.