Real-time Ocean Data Solutions

Saildrone is the world leader in providing ocean data solutions with uncrewed surface vehicles, offering unrivaled payload, range, and reliability. Saildrone vehicles have sailed almost 1,000,000 nautical miles and spent almost 25,000 days at sea collecting data that provides unprecedented intelligence for climate, mapping, and maritime security applications.

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Environmentally Friendly
Operations with low or no carbon footprint or environmental impact delivered at a fraction of the cost of traditional approaches
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ML Enabled
Supported by the world’s leading ML-powered marine identification system
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Secure Data Portal
Secure Mission Portal provides 24/7 real-time access to your mission
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Capable, Proven & Trusted
Almost 25,000 days at sea and 1,000,000 nautical miles sailed from the Arctic to the Southern Ocean
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American Owned, Manufactured & Operated

A Protected Planet

Maritime Domain Awareness

Advanced maritime intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions powered by proprietary machine learning and Saildrone’s purpose-built platform.

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A Charted Planet

Ocean Mapping

Autonomous single-beam and multibeam bathymetric data collection for navigation and charting, telecommunications, offshore energy, and physical oceanography to 23,000 feet depth.

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A Quantified Planet

Ocean Data

Cost-effective solutions for high-quality, fit-for-purpose in situ ocean and climate data collection with a robust data chain of custody, from sensor calibration to final distribution.

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Our global fleet of wind and solar-powered ocean drones monitors the planet in real time, above and below the surface.
Some Recent Missions
SF – Hawaii Multibeam Bathymetry
SF – Hawaii Multibeam Bathymetry
The Saildrone Surveyor completed a groundbreaking 2,250-nautical mile multibeam mapping mission from San Francisco to Honolulu.
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Atlantic Hurricane Monitoring
Atlantic Hurricane Monitoring
Collecting data and video where it’s never been collected before—inside a hurricane—to better understand rapid intensification and improve hurricane forecasting.
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Atlantic to Mediterranean
Atlantic to Mediterranean
The first mission by an autonomous vehicle from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea, collecting environmental and carbon data for climate science.
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USCG MDA Demonstration
USCG MDA Demonstration
The USCG examined the feasibility, costs, and benefits of using low-cost autonomous vehicles to provide persistent maritime domain awareness in remote areas of the ocean.
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What Our Users Are Saying
"The changes that are occurring in the environment are so rapid, innovative methods for collecting data, such as those that Saildrone is providing and evolving, are more important than ever."
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"The changes that are occurring in the environment are so rapid, innovative methods for collecting data, such as those that Saildrone is providing and evolving, are more important than ever."
Robert Foy
Science and research director of the Alaska Fisheries Science Center
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