Explore Our Missions

Discover case studies describing the range of missions Saildrone vehicles have undertaken to deliver valuable maritime data security operations—from the Arctic to the Antarctic.

Improving Hurricane Rapid Intensification Forecasting

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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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.

Mission Details

Persistent Maritime Domain Awareness in Remote Areas

Number of vehicles

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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Studying the Impact of Sound on Fish Stock Assessments

13,881 nm

Cumulative distance sailed

Number of Vehicles

Great Lakes

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

Mission Details

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.

Mission Details

Recent Missions

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Weather & Climate

Measuring CO2 Uptake in the Southern Ocean

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

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Fisheries

Augmenting Ship-based Fish Stock Surveys

A 100-day mission from Vancouver Island to San Diego to assess fish stocks, count marine mammals, and test how uncrewed surface vehicles can augment ship-based sampling.

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Fisheries

Tracking Vulnerable Apex Predators

A multidisciplinary effort augmenting ship-based operations to understand why great white sharks swim more than 1,100 nautical miles each year to an ocean desert in the North Pacific.

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Weather & Climate

Baja California Satellite Calibration & Validation

A 60-day cruise to study sea surface temperature and air-sea heat fluxes along dynamic frontal regions off the coast of California.

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Weather & Climate

Surveying Ice, CO2 & Fisheries in the Arctic

Tracking melting ice, measuring CO2, and counting fish, seals, and whales to better understand behavior and population in the Bering and Chukchi Seas.

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Saildrone's autonomous vehicles provide cost-effective solutions for in situ data collection in remote ocean regions.

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