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الاثنين، 7 أغسطس 2017

There Is A Lot To Learn About Unmanned Surface Vehicles

By Lisa Wallace


It can be a scary future when we think about cars driving themselves around. A lot of research has been done by professionals and it should be a given that safety measures are being taken, but accidents and mistakes happen, and the informed citizen can use the power of information to keep her or himself safe. There is a lot that can be learned about unmanned surface vehicles.

Anyone who has ever served on a military water craft or anyone who has ever taken an extended boat trip will be able to tell you easily that boats are fun to be on but can be very confining quarters. Now that there is technology that allows us to remove the crews from these vehicles, it is a great thing. This opens up all kinds of new opportunities that just were not there before.

Oceanographers love this new technology because it allows them to conduct their research in ways that never would have been possible before without these new advancements. This means that we will be able to find out more things about our mysterious oceans than ever before. With these wonderful advancements, we might find out shocking truths about the waters that we would never have expected.

One of the big benefits of using something like this is the cost savings. It is not difficult to see where are the savings come from, as the main thing that is eliminated from the equation is the people. When you have to hire a crew, you not only have to pay them fairly but you also have to consider things like food and other management issues.

When you are doing something as serious and precise as scientific research, you need something that you can count on in order to get data that we can actually learn from and possibly convince even the densest of politicians that global warming is really a thing that exists in the real world. Oceanographers have made use of moored or drifting weather buoys, but these are not always the best. That is why so many of them have turned to this new technological advancement.

A wonderful USV is the wave glider, which has a name that stands for itself. It literally rides the waves of the ocean in order to move itself around to wherever it is programmed to go. By using the energy from the sun, it is also able to use a renewable energy source to power up its electrical equipment.

Hydrographic survey is one of the many ways that studied individuals go out and learn about the ways of the ocean. This is not a branch of study that has been left out of the wave of popularity these USVs have been making around the world. The most common type used in this field are powered USVs.

It is so great when the loss of precious human life can be prevented, and this technology is a great way for this to happen. When the military has to find out where a certain underwater mine is located, in the past it took people going around in manned vehicles until they found it. Now no lives have to be lost or even risked in the process.




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