SAILDRONE SURVEYOR

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WHAT Surveyor DELIVERS
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Extreme‑range Blue‑water Autonomy for ISR, Mapping, and Kinetic Effects

20m
65.6 FEET LENGTH
80hp
HIGH-EFFICIENCY DIESEL
6Kts
MAPPING SPEED

Sound Velocity Profiler & Winch

PTZ Infrared Camera

Radar

AIS Transreceiver

Satellite Communications

Wind Speed & Direction

Starlink

Surface Sound Velocity Probe

Ocean Currents

Seafloor Mapping

Nav Lights & Horn

SURVEYOR

A 20-meter unmanned surface vehicle built for global defense missions. Surveyor provides persistent maritime intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), deep-ocean mapping for undersea advantage, and the capability to support distributed, long-endurance power projection.

Designed for months at sea, Surveyor fuses radar, EO/IR, ML-based detection, passive acoustics, AIS, and high-power oceanographic payloads to operate independently across the world’s harshest environments.

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Specs
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Vehicle
Specifications

A High‑capacity Platform for Advanced Sensor and Effector Integration

Whether equipped for ISR, subsea mapping, acoustic sensing, or sea control missions, Surveyor provides the endurance and power required for complex payloads.
LENGTH
20 m
WING HEIGHT
13 m
DRAFT
3.6 m
PRIMARY PROPULSION
80 hp high-efficiency diesel
AUXILIARY PROPULSION
Wind (Saildrone Wing)
MAPPING SPEED
6 knots
ENDURANCE
100 days between service stops
PAYLOAD POWER
3 kW steady state
6 kW peak

Revolutionizing Cable Route Surveys with USVs

A landmark mission proving autonomous vehicles can match traditional survey performance while cutting costs, risks, and emissions in deep-ocean mapping.

Mission Details
1

Number of Surveyor USVs

4,500 km

Area covered

5,500 meters

Max depth surveyed

Aleutians Uncrewed Ocean Exploration

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
13,112 sq nm

US EEZ seafloor mapped

1,000 m

Height of seamount discovered

4,000 nm

Round-trip transit to operation area

Demonstrating Autonomous Deep Ocean Mapping

The first autonomous multibeam mapping mission from San Francisco to Honolulu to contribute data to Seabed 2030.

Mission Details
6,400 sq nm

Seafloor area mapped

2,250 nm

Distance traveled

28

Days at sea

Pioneering Uncrewed Seafloor Mapping Across a Remote Caribbean EEZ

Delivering a modern baseline bathymetric dataset to support navigation, marine stewardship, and the growth of the Cayman Islands’ Blue Economy.

Mission Details
90,000 sq km

of seafloor surveyed

~300

mission days of autonomous operations

900+

sound-velocity profile casts executed