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Defense and Space Manufacturing

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Saildrone provides comprehensive turnkey solutions for autonomous maritime security, ocean mapping, and ocean data.

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Saildrone provides comprehensive data solutions for maritime security, ocean mapping, and ocean data. The company provides real-time access to critical data from any ocean on earth, 24/7/365, and uses proprietary software applications to transform that data into actionable insights and intelligence. Saildrone’s fleet of uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs), powered by renewable wind and solar power, have a minimal carbon footprint and are designed to make ocean intelligence cost-effective at scale. Saildrones operate 24/7/365, without the need for a crewed support vehicle, and have sailed 1M nautical miles from the Arctic to the Antarctic and spent 32,000+ days at sea in the harshest ocean conditions on the planet.

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Defense and Space Manufacturing

Company size

201-500 employees

Headquarters

Alameda, California

Type

Privately Held

Founded

2014

Specialties

weather, data, dataservices, technology, unmanned systems, autonomous vehicles, climate data, maritime security, bathymetry, ocean mapping, hydrography, fisheries acoustics, illegal fishing, sustainability, defense, offshore energy, survey, and ocean drone

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The future of modern maritime domain awareness is now. Saildrone delivers decisive tactical and strategic advantage at sea through integrated autonomous technology for national security and law enforcement, seafloor mapping, and the sustainable management of Earth’s most vital resources. 🌎
NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration released the 2024 Global Carbon Budget, which evaluates the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, ocean, and land, and how much of it is human-produced due to fossil fuel emissions and other human activities. There are gaps to close in the measurement of the ocean carbon sink, especially in extreme conditions and hard-to-reach areas like the Southern Ocean. “There are several places in the ocean where the lack of observations, especially in the winter, may have an impact on observation-based estimates. We have been working with modelers to emphasize how these seasonal differences impact ocean carbon sink estimates in the regions where we don’t have enough data,” said Richard Feely, a Senior Scientist and Chemical Oceanographer at Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL). Equipped with NOAA PMEL’s ASVCO2 sensors, Saildrone USVs have gathered carbon data from the Tropical Pacific, to the Antarctic, and proposes that sustained global monitoring in remote, under-sampled regions will be critical to improving estimates of the Global Carbon Budget. Read More:https://lnkd.in/gDXA-BFB https://lnkd.in/gr95tQb9
Discrepancies in ocean carbon sink estimates persist due to observational and knowledge gaps - Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing
This Veteran’s Day, Saildrone honors those who have served with courage and unwavering dedication. We remember and salute our service members for their sacrifices—past, present, and future 🇺🇸
Saildrone is proud to support NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration in its continued effort to better understand and predict devastating events like Hurricane Milton. We wish all those in its path the best of luck to weather the storm safely.

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Inside Hurricane Milton, NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration and Saildrone are gathering oceanic and atmospheric observations. On Wednesday October 9th, saildrone 1083 reported maximum significant wave height of 28.12 feet (8.57m), and wind gusts as strong as 75.95 mph (66kts) while 40 nautical miles from the center of the storm. Saildrones are uncrewed surface vehicles uniquely designed to gather temperature, pressure, wind speed, and wave height data from both the upper ocean and lowest levels of the atmosphere. These observations are critical in forecasting what conditions we can expect on the ground when a storm is making landfall. This vital research represents a collaborative endeavor between Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL), NOAA Research, and Saildrone to better understand the role of the ocean in hurricanes. For the latest updates about Hurricane Milton, visit nhc.noaa.gov/#milton
Inside Hurricane Helene 🌀 Saildrone and NOAA Research worked together this week to direct two Saildrone Explorer USVs into Hurricane Helene to gather data at the air-sea interface during the storm. On Thursday, September 26, at 6:16pm ET, SD-1083 captured this video and measured 9.06 meter (29.7 ft) significant wave height and 71.82 kt wind gusts. Visit hurricanes.gov for detailed forecasts, watches, and warnings, and follow the guidance of local officials. Saildrones are uncrewed surface vehicles powered by wind and solar energy and remotely piloted. They are capable of making multiple concurrent measurements of the environment, including wind speed, wave height, temperature, pressure, and salinity. This mission is a collaboration between NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) and Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) Lab, and Saildrone. 📷: Video of stormy water captured from saildrone SD-1083’s onboard camera at the eyewall of Hurricane Helene
Saildrone is heading to DEFSEC Atlantic next week. Come by our booth to see how autonomous solutions can reduce the cost of operations and expand maritime domain awareness! 🌊 💪
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What we're reading this week 📙 In Category 5, author Porter Fox turns climate science into a gripping thriller. Throughout the book, Fox shadows explorers, oceanographers, sailors, and weather forecasters to understand the power of the ocean and its effect on global weather patterns. He came to Saildrone to interview CEO Richard Jenkins and VP Ocean Mapping Brian Connon about how Saildrone USVs can help shed light on all that we don't know about the ocean. "We don't know what's down there. And the only way to know is to go and look." Order a copy from Amazon or find it at your local bookseller: https://lnkd.in/gyZnYmYq

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Defense and Space Manufacturing

Alameda, California 25,057 followers

Saildrone provides comprehensive turnkey solutions for autonomous maritime security, ocean mapping, and ocean data.

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