Draft:Offshore Sensing


Offshore Sensing
Company typePrivate
IndustryMarine Robotics
FoundedSeptember 2014; 9 years ago (2014-09)
Headquarters
Key people
  • Max Hartvigsen
    (CEO)
  • David Peddie
    (CTO)
ProductsSailbuoy
Websitesailbuoy.no

Offshore Sensing is a marine robotics company and the home of the Sailbuoy.

History

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Offshore Sensing AS, was established in 2014 as a spin-off from the Christian Michelsen Research now NORCE. The technology was developed at NORCE in 2005.

Sailbuoy

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The Sailbuoy is a long-endurance Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) for the oceans.

The patent pending design and technology of the Sailbuoy makes it able to stay at sea for months. Navigating the oceans autonomously and transmitting back data at regular intervals.

Sailbuoy can be used for various ocean applications, from measuring ocean and atmospheric parameters to tracking oil spills or acting as a communication relay station for subsea instrumentation.

Sailbuoy is an application-based USV designed to address different needs by integrating sensors.

Missions

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2016 North Sea mission

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Mission duration: 2 months

This mission was conducted by Offshore Sensing summer 2016. The mission objective of the SailBuoy was to investigate the Sailbuoys performance as a wave buoy in summer conditions. Weather conditions were light to severe. The biggest wave measured was 14.3 m with a significant wave-height of 8 m. After 2 months at sea, the SB Wave was directed home and returned to the deployment point.

2018 Transatlantic crossing

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In 2018 the SailBuoy Met was the first-ever unmanned surface vehicle to complete an Atlantic crossing. After 80 days at sea, she has finally arrived at the finish line. Deployed in Newfoundland, she has travelled to Ireland sailing a total of 5100 km to cover the 3000 km stretch.

Having crossed the Atlantic the SailBuoy continued to Norway travellig for 118 days at sea and covered a total of 7800 km in all kinds of weather from Newfoundland to Norway via Ireland.

2020 Sailbuoy brings big data to Antarctic krill fishery

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In 2020 Aker BioMarine launched Sailbuoy as part of its operations in Antarctica to take a further step in a new data-driven era of sustainable fishery and fishery management.

References

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SailBuoy Ocean Currents: Low-Cost Upper-Layer Ocean Current Measurements [1]

  • Autonomous Surface and Underwater Vehicles as Effective

Ecosystem Monitoring and Research Platforms in the Arctic—The Glider Project †[2]

  • Navigation performance of the

SailBuoy[3]

  • Near surface oceanographic measurements using the SailBuoy[4]
  • The SailBuoy remotely-controlled unmanned

vessel: Measurements of near-surface temperature, salinity and oxygen concentration in the Northern Gulf of Mexico [5]

  • Upper layers velocity field observation using the Sailbuoy integrated current profiler: Polar Front experiment[6]
  • CMR SailBuoy deployment in the Northern Gulf of Mexico [7]
  • Directional wave measurements using an autonomous vessel[8]
  • Mid-summer vertical behavior of a high-latitude oceanic zooplankton community [9]
  • Unmanned SailBuoy vessel shows mettle in two-month Gulf of Mexico journey[10]
  • The Sailbuoy Unmanned Ocean Vessel for METOCEAN Instrumentation[11]
  • Aker BioMarine brings big data to Antarctic krill fishery[12]
  • Sailbuoy Met, the first unmanned surface vehicle to cross the Atlantic [13]
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  1. ^ Wullenweber, Nellie; Hole, Lars R.; Ghaffari, Peygham; Graves, Inger; Tholo, Harald; Camus, Lionel (2022). "SailBuoy Ocean Currents: Low-Cost Upper-Layer Ocean Current Measurements". Sensors. 22 (15): 5553. Bibcode:2022Senso..22.5553W. doi:10.3390/s22155553. PMC 9370917. PMID 35898056.
  2. ^ http://sailbuoy.no/images/publications/sensors-21-06752-v3.pdf
  3. ^ http://sailbuoy.no/files/CMR-12-A10266-RA-1-rev-00-Navigation%20performance%20of%20the%20SailBuoy.pdf
  4. ^ http://sailbuoy.no/files/CMR-12-A10266-RA-2%20Near%20surface%20oceanographic%20measurements%20using%20the%20SailBuoy.pdf
  5. ^ http://sailbuoy.no/files/The%20SailBuoy%20remotely-controlled%20unmanned%20vessel%20Measurements%20of%20near%20surface%20temperature,%20salinity%20and%20oxygen%20concentration%20in%20the%20Northern%20Gulf%20of%20Mexico.pdf
  6. ^ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362093916_Upper_layers_velocity_field_observation_using_the_Sailbuoy_integrated_current_profiler_Polar_Front_experiment
  7. ^ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272495776_CMR_SailBuoy_deployment_in_the_Northern_Gulf_of_Mexico
  8. ^ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305748269_Directional_wave_measurements_using_an_autonomous_vessel
  9. ^ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359331993_Mid-summer_vertical_behavior_of_a_high-latitude_oceanic_zooplankton_community
  10. ^ "Unmanned SailBuoy vessel shows mettle in two-month Gulf of Mexico journey". October 2014.
  11. ^ http://sailbuoy.no/files/Sailbuoy%20article%20ONT.pdf
  12. ^ "Aker BioMarine brings big data to Antarctic krill fishery".
  13. ^ "Sailbuoy Met, the first unmanned surface vehicle to cross the Atlantic". 7 September 2018.