Critical Data for Weather & Climate

The ocean is critically under-explored and lacks the monitoring systems needed to understand our climate. Advanced technologies are needed to effectively monitor our ocean and gain critical insights into climate science.

Benefits

Transforming Ocean Access through Advanced Technology

Over the past decade, Saildrone USVs have redefined the art of the possible for scientific research at sea. Traditionally, researchers have relied on expensive, carbon-intensive, and scarce crewed vessels to obtain the data needed to understand our changing climate. Saildrone USVs have dramatically reduced the cost, risk, and carbon footprint associated with data collection at sea, unlocking access to vast pools of data and transforming scientists’ understanding of the ocean’s impact on Earth’s climate. 

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RECENT MISSIONS

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Vehicles

109.83 knots

Highest wind speed recorded

14.15 meters

Highest significant wave height

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HOW IT WORKS

Your Mission is in Good Hands

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Mission Planning

Saildrone undertakes a rigorous, comprehensive planning process in close collaboration with our customers. A thorough feasibility analysis identifies the deployment zone, and the most optimal routes for mission success are ascertained.

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Mission Execution

Missions are fully managed by Saildrone, covering logistics, deployment, and operations. The Saildrone Mission Portal facilitates ongoing remote monitoring, allowing for immediate data access and quality assessment, allowing for on-the-fly adaptations to mission plans to meet customer specifications.

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Post Mission

Once the vehicles return to shore, Saildrone handles all retrieval and logistical arrangements, and the raw data is downloaded and delivered to the customer.

Client Stories

Saildrone is proud to have partnered with leading organizations to help them successfully achieve their climate science mission objectives.

We’re grateful and happy for the cooperation with Saildrone. The team was very helpful and solutions-oriented, which was important for such a long-lasting mission as ATL2MED. We were also quite impressed by the amount of effort they put into piloting the saildrones—do they ever sleep?!”

Ingunn Skjelvan

Research Scientist at Norce Norwegian Research Centre and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research and Principal Investigator for Station Certification at ICOS

The completed mission with its large number of carbon measurements in this remote study area off West Africa, plus the measurements from the transit times of the saildrone, has created a reference data set that allows us to validate the measurements from other assets on the water—the Argo floats and PIRATA buoys."

Björn Fiedler

Marine Chemist at GEOMAR and Principal Investigator

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