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Highest wind speed recorded

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Highest significant wave height

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RECENT MISSIONS

Improving Hurricane Rapid Intensification Forecasting

24

Number of vehicles

109.83 kts

Highest wind speed recorded

14.15 m

Highest significant wave height

The biggest challenge to hurricane forecasting is rapid intensification, which can have a huge impact if a storm intensifies just before landfall.

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Studying the Impact of Sound on Fish Stock Assessments

13,881 nm

Cumulative distance sailed

6

Number of Vehicles

4

Great Lakes

Saildrone Explorers are being used to determine if noise from research vessels scatter fish, resulting in inaccurate stock counts.

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Aleutians Uncrewed Ocean Exploration

13,112 sq nm

US EEZ seafloor mapped

1,000 m

Height of seamount discovered

4,000 nm

Round-trip transit to operation area

A long-term survey around the Aleutian Islands and off the coast of California to address ocean exploration gaps in remote areas with USVs.

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Providing Persistent MDA in Remote Areas for USCG

6

Number of vehicles

30

Days at sea

The USCG examined the feasibility, costs, and benefits of using low-cost autonomous vehicles to provide persistent maritime domain awareness in the Pacific Ocean.

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Measuring CO2 Uptake in the Southern Ocean

196 days

At sea

11,879 nm

Total distance sailed

15 m

Height of waves mesured

The world's first autonomous circumnavigation of Antarctica, enabling new key insights into ocean and climate processes.

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Hyperactive Hurricane Season Provides Wealth of Research Data

NOAA and Saildrone’s 4th annual hurricane mission collected 768 days of data over 27,000 nautical miles sailed with 16 hurricane intercepts.

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Saildrone Welcomes House Armed Services Committee Members to California Headquarters

CEO Richard Jenkins provided members with a look at how Saildrone is developing cost-efficient, alternative technologies to transform the battlefield.

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A System of Systems to Resolve Ocean Observation Gaps

National Data Buoy Center Director Dr. William Burnett says what we need is a conglomerate of moored and uncrewed systems working together to resolve observation gaps and grow the Blue Economy.

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Locating Potential Deep-sea Coral Habitat in the Gulf of Maine

Saildrone has mapped 1,500 sq nm of seafloor in an under-explored area of the Gulf of Maine, revealing a complex and varied underwater landscape.

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Uncrewed Surface Vehicles (USVs) as Platforms for Fisheries and Plankton Acoustics

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Validation and Application of Satellite-Derived Sea Surface Temperature Gradients in the Bering Strait and Bering Sea

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Assessment of Accuracy of Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Sea Surface Temperature at High Latitudes Using Saildrone Data

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The Importance of Contemporaneous Wind and pCO2 Measurements for Regional Air-Sea CO2 Flux Estimates

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Extratropical Storms Induce Carbon Outgassing Over the Southern Ocean

Characterizing the California Current System through Sea Surface Temperature and Salinity

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