ocean mapping gets faster thanks to bedrock’s autonomous submarine

THIS UNDERWATER DRONE WILL MAP OCEAN FLOORS 

american company bedrock has unveiled an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) that aims to accelerate the ocean mapping process, support the offshore wind industry, and generally broaden our limited knowledge of ocean depths.

together with the new fully electric submarine, bedrock is also launching an ocean-mapping cloud platform called mosaic. this technology lets customers manage the marine data recovered during deep-sea explorations.

BEDROCK WILL make THE PROCESS UP TO 10 TIMES faster

today the time needed for ocean mapping and data delivery goes up to one year. bedrock’s first vertically integrated system will shorten this timeframe by up to 10 times, providing survey status and data immediately after each underwater exploration.

A CLOUD PLATFORM TO VISUALIZE MARINE DATA

the company’s fully electric AUVs improve the speed and efficiency of seafloor acquisition and mapping, creating data that’s up to 50 times higher resolution than currently available maps. this new system cuts the need for large survey ships, making the process much easier and increasing the efficiency of seafloor data acquisition.

‘the ocean is a key environment we need to deeply understand to save the planet from climate change and provide sustainable, renewable energy,’  said anthony dimare, co-founder and CEO of bedrock. ‘but right now, we simply don’t have the ability to act quickly because we lack simple, easy access to critical data on how the ocean works, starting with the seafloor. bedrock’s vertically-integrated seafloor data platform enabled by our proprietary AUV’s, coupled

with mosaic, is the technology needed for this new function shift to change the way we work with our oceans.’

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project info

company: bedrock

type: automated underwater vehicle (AUV)