The image shows the glider tracks since the survey started 8th of March
The image shows the glider tracks since the survey started 8th of March

Nyhet -

Ocean drones - the success of the GLIDER project operations

We can report that the operation of three autonomous vehicles (gliders) that were deployed at the coast west of Bodø in the beginning of March has been a success. The aim of this mission is to collect environmental data that can increase our knowledge about the marine ecosystem during the spawning season of the Atlantic cod.

The survey is currently half way. Some of the data have been received in real time via satelite (temperature, oxygen, salinity, chlorophyll A, turbidity) whilst echo sounder and hydrophone data are stored on the gliders. These data will be downloaded during a recovery of the gliders for maintenance purposes. The sensors on the vehicles have been calibrated and a data portal has been developed to visualize data in real time as well as to perform data quality control.

The vehicles are: a Sailbuoy, a Wave Glider for surface data collection; and a Seaglider for collecting data from the sea bottom to the surface. The Sailbuoy is developed and operated by Offshore Sensing, the Wave Glider is operated by Maritime Robotics, and the Seaglider is developed and operated by Kongsberg Maritime. These platforms are extremely energy efficient taking advantage of energy from waves, wind and solar power.

The project is led by Akvaplan-niva AS and other partners, than the ones mentioned above, are the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Nord Universitet, Christian Michelsen Research, Meterologisk institutt and Aanderaa Data Instruments As.

As of 7th of May, the Sailbuoy had collected 1 085 data points, the Seaglider had collected 953 081 records and the Wave Glider 4 778 records. The Sailbuoy and Wave Glider has been taken out of water half way of the survey for data download and maintenance.

Emner

Kontakter

Relatert innhold

  • Kongsberg Maritime has launched Blue Insight, a modular, cloud-based solution for seamless data collection and analysis (Illustration: Kongsberg Maritime).

    Akvaplan-niva collaborates as Kongsberg Maritime launches a digital toolbox for ocean data management and analysis - Blue Insight


    Blue Insight provides an open, modular platform for the processing, visualisation and sharing of ocean data. The core module contains the cloud framework – which has been built to the highest cyber security standards – and an application-specific dashboard, teamed with data storage and management functionalities. Additional modules can be added to this framework to tailor Blue Insight’s functi

  • Ocean drone set sail to collect fish data for 'Hywind Scotland'

    Ocean drone set sail to collect fish data for 'Hywind Scotland'

    "Hywind Scotland is the world's first floating wind farm. This pilot park, at the East coast of Scotland," has been producing since 2017 and is operated by Equinor. Having learned about the work of Akvaplan-niva in the "GLIDER" project, Equinor has now contracted Akvaplan-niva to deploy a glider to perform a fish survey by the wind farm. The data collected in the survey will help scientists to ide

  • The seaglider (Illustration: Reibo)

    Ocean drones to study calanus migration

    Akvaplan-niva has been using gliders (autonomous marine robots) rigged with multiple sensors very successfully for the last 4 years. Our fleet of gliders has collected data for several months in the Norwegian Arctic around the Lofoten Vesterålen islands providing new insight into marine ecosystem structure and functioning.  Recently Akvaplan-niva was awarded funding for a new project for expanded

  • The Akvaplan-niva presentation was held by Alexei Bambulyak.

    Norwegian-Russian event: Anthropogenic litter in the Barents Sea - plastic and lost fishing gear

    Recently Lionel Camus and Alexei Bambulyak from Akvaplan-niva presented the projects MALINOR, ArcToMal and DIMARC at a Marine litter workshop arranged by World Wildlife Fund Russia (WWF Russia). The title of their talk was "Marine litter in the Arctic seas - Norwegian-Russian research collaboration and innovative litter mapping solutions". The event was arranged with support of the Consulate Gener

Fyll ut e-postadressen din for å følge Akvaplan-niva

Når du velger å følge et nyhetsrom og opprette en brukerkonto vil dine personopplysninger bli benyttet av oss og av nyhetsrommets eier for å sende deg nyheter og oppdateringer i henhold til dine varslingsinnstillinger.

For mer informasjon, les vår Personvernspolicy, som gjelder for vår bruk av dine personopplysninger, og vår Personvernspolicy for Contacts, som gjelder for nyhetsrommets eiers bruk av dine personopplysninger.

Vær oppmerksom på at våre Brukervilkår gjelder for all bruk av våre tjenester.

Du kan trekke tilbake ditt samtykke når som helst ved å melde deg ut eller slette din konto.
Sjekk innboksen din

E-post sendt til __email__. Klikk på lenken i e-posten for å følge Akvaplan-niva.

Ok