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Four Wave Gliders. 300 Days. 25,000 Miles. 2,250,000 Data Points. Open Source. Real Time.
In our lifetime, robots have traveled to the moon.
They’ve been to Mars.
They’ve cleaned our pools and they’ve helped perform surgeries.
But no robot has ever crossed the largest ocean on the planet.
That’s about to change.
On November 17th, 2011, in San Francisco, Liquid Robotics will launch four Wave Gliders that will attempt to travel the longest distance at sea ever completed by an unmanned marine vehicle. The robots will travel together to Hawaii and then take separate routes across the Pacific, one pair arriving in Japan and the other in Australia. While at sea, the Wave Gliders will be routed across regions never before remotely surveyed and will continuously transmit valuable data on salinity and water temperature, waves, weather, fluorescence, and dissolved oxygen. This data will be made available in near real-time to all registered individuals.Oceanographic organizations already planning to use the data gathered during the Pacific crossing include Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the Monterey Naval Post Graduate School. What sensors are onboard the Wave Gliders? The following sensors are installed on all four Wave Gliders. The sampling interval for all sensors is 10 minutes. Seabird GPCTD with Dissolved Oxygen Sensor – measures water conductivity, temperature, depth, and dissolved oxygen just below the float of the Wave Glider. Datawell MOSE-G Directional Wave Sensor – measures significant wave height, average period, peak period, and peak direction. Airmar PB200 WeatherStation – measures air temperature, barometric pressure, wind speed, wind gust speed, and wind direction one meter above the deck of the Wave Glider.
Turner Designs C3 Submersible Fluorometer – measures chlorophyll-A and crude oil fluorescence, as well as turbidity and water temperature just below the float of the Wave Glider.
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