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