The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will have a new high-tech fleet of autonomous vehicles that can fly and sail into hurricanes to better collect data.
A high-tech sailing drone was deployed onto the Atlantic Ocean near Charleston, South Carolina, this past weekend to collect weather data directly from wicked hurricanes. The autonomous ocean drone, known as a saildrone, was redeployed by California-based company Saildrone Inc., which designs and operates autonomous ocean drones, in partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
The redeployment of the SD 1045, famous for capturing the first video from inside a major hurricane at sea, marks a significant milestone in hurricane research.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) plans a three-layered investigation of hurricanes this year. In addition to its head-line grabbing use of unmanned aircraft, NOAA will be studying hurricanes on the surface of the water and below.. - Inside Unmanned Systems News Magazine