Saildrone Unmanned Surface Vehicles (IMAGE)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Saildrone Unmanned Surface Vehicles

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Saildrone unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) will operate in ice-covered parts of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans to gather critical information about air-sea interaction in these difficult-to-navigate parts of the ocean in order to improve the accuracy of ice and weather forecasts in the region.

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