Overview
Surveyor is in charge of deep-water ocean mapping. Saildrone designs, builds, and operates three classes of uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) capable of providing year-round ocean intelligence. Each USV class is designed for a specific task, including Surveyor for deep-water ocean mapping. Powered by renewable wind and solar energy, the vehicles operate continuously without crew support and have sailed over 1 million nautical miles, gathering climate data, tracking fish and marine mammals, and mapping.
Specifications
Category: Research- Payload
- 100 kg
- Speed
- 3.4 m/s
- Weight
- 13,607.8 kg
- Battery
- 8,640 h
- Autonomy
- fully autonomous
- Launch year
- 2015
- Price
- $7,500,000
- Status
- active
Detailed specifications
Safety & certifications1
- Safety Certification
- ABS Light Warship code
Other19
- Price Tier
- 150K+
- Applications
- sample_handling
- Sub Category
- uncrewed surface vehicle (USV)
- Api Available
- true
- Datasheet Url
- View Link
- Max Speed M S
- 1.54
- Pricing Model
- raas
- Fleet Software
- Mission Portal
- Model Variants
- Saildrone Explorer,Saildrone Voyager,Saildrone Spectre
- Company Country
- US
- Navigation Type
- gps
- Deployment Notes
- NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research partnership; University of New Hampshire & Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute integration; over 500,000 nautical miles sailed; 10,000+ days at sea from Arctic to Antarctic; USN 4th Fleet counter drug; CBP border monitoring; Meta cable route survey; Cayman Islands EEZ mapping; Gulf of Maine mapping; Atlantic hurricane monitoring
- Industries Served
- defense,maritime_security,ocean_mapping,oil_and_gas,fisheries
- Software Platform
- Mission Portal
- Availability Status
- available
- Countries Available
- US
- Extras Contact Emails
- —
- Programming Interface
- no_code_gui
- Additional Information
- Operates 24/7 for up to 365 continuous days at sea without a support vehicle.,No other platform in the world can collect high-resolution, high-quality scientific data above and below the ocean surface with the endurance of the Saildrone Explorer.,Built for missions where crewed vessels cannot safely or economically operate.,Provides uninterrupted data collection across vast ocean regions—including inside hurricanes—with zero manning burden.
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