Unmanned Data Harvesting Service

Marine autonomous systems (MAS) have the potential to disrupt standard methodology of offshore environmental monitoring. The project, ‘MRC-Unmanned Data Harvesting Service’ of the VLIZ Marine Robotics Centre researches if MAS can be used in the North Sea to harvest data from subsea moorings via acoustic communications. The use of MAS for the intermittent gathering of scientific data, increases the availability of said data, while decreasing the dependency on large research vessels. This greener, safer and cheaper technology may prove to be an important factor in a future oceanographic network in the North Sea. VLIZ-MRC plans to implement the technology in the beginning of 2021 and wants to organize a sea trial after the implementation of this technology on the VLIZ moorings and the VLIZ USV.

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