Saildrone uses NVIDIA Jetson AI modules for autonomous ocean monitoring, along with the NVIDIA DeepStream software development kit to keep track of intelligent video analytics. Recently, the University of Hawaii at Manoa used three 23-foot Saildrone Explorer USVs to study the impact of ocean acidification on climate change.
University of Hawaii’s six-month mission took the Explorer USVs around Maui, Oahu and Kaui. The data collected will be used to help evaluate the oceanโs health around the state. One issue the team hopes to gain more insight on is ocean acidification, or the reduction in its pH. This could have an impact on coral, oysters, clams, sea urchins and calcareous plankton.
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Weโve sailed into three major hurricanes, and right through the eye of Hurricane Sam, and all the vehicles came out the other side โ they are pretty robust platforms. With solar power, being able to keep our compute load power efficiency lower than a typical computing platform running GPUs by implementing NVIDIA Jetson is important for enabling us to do these kinds of missions, said Blythe Towal, VP of Software Engineering at Saildrone.
