Wave Glider
Wave Glider is a new generation of autonomous ocean unmanned platform, which consists of two components, the surface floating body and the underwater sailing wing, connected by 4.5m umbili-cal cable.
It has the characteristic of long mission durations that can be deployed in water all year round with the use of clean energy such as wave energy and solar energy to provide navigational power and maintain the operation of its own electrical system, commu-nication system and servo system. The platform is based on Beidou satellite system to achieve the construction of communication data chain to ensure the security of data collection.
Users can use a variety of marine sensors and moni-toring equipment for different applications. This makes the wave glider a mobile, flexible, multi-infor-mation sensor integrated marine unmanned moni-toring platform.
In the process of autonomous navigation, it achieves the objectives of basic marine data collec-tion, marine underwater target tracking, and marine resource investigation. The platform has good con-cealment and can be used for tasks such as secret investigation, defense of island reefs, and maritime security.
Application
Wave Glider when equipped with different kinds of marine survey instruments and equipment, it can perform maritime assignments for different tasks, and it is mainly used in the following fields:
Commercial:
Marine Science Research
Global Climate Research
Marine Resource Investigation,
Natural Disasters - Earthquake/Hurricanes/ Typhoons Warning
Offshore Environment Monitoring
Fishery Resources Survey
Marine Ecosystem Monitoring
Oil & Gas Platform Management
Marine communication relay station, and more Military:
Marine Safety Guards
Anti-submarine warfare (ASW)
Anti-mine detection
Intelligence Gathering & Surveillance
Maritime Vigilance Island reef defence
Underwater target tracking
Seaport safety monitoring
Tactical weather forecast, etc.
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Configuration Setup:
Standard:
• Beidou AIS receiver
• Airmar 200WX Weather Station
• Wave sensor(Datawell MOSE-G1000)
Options:
• Anti-water camera
• Measuring instrument (TRDI WHM-300 ADCP)
• Sensor(SeaBird 49 GPCTD)
• Doppler Speed Measuring Instrument (Chl-a,COOM)
• Ocean pH Measuring instrurnent(SeaFET)
• pCO2 Measuring instrument (NOM PMEL MAPCO2 or Contros HydroC CO2)
• Ocean hyperspectral sensors ( Satlantic HyperOCR )
• PAR Sensor(Wethabs ECO PAR)
• Hydrophones
• Scripps HARP hydrophone
• Fish Finder (BioSonics DT-X SUB echo-sounder)
• Thermistor Chain
• Marine magnetometer( GB8SXS or Seaspy)