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Topic: Unmanned vehicles

This autonomous surface vessel created by Saildrone, carrying specially designed sensors, is pictured leaving Alameda, California, in mid-May 2020, headed for the Bering Sea. NOAA will use it and two similar unmanned surface vessels to conduct a survey of walleye pollock, our nation’s largest fishery, and collect weather and ocean data that will be transmitted to the Global Telecommunications System to assist with Arctic weather forecasts.

NOAA ramps up use of drones to collect fish, seafloor and weather data

June 19, 2020

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Across NOAA

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research

unmanned vehicles

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