Environment
Water quality, protected areas, seagrass, illegal fishing. A sail drone stays for a season and costs a fraction of a survey day.
The point
A survey vessel gives you one perfect day. A protected area changes on the other three hundred and sixty-four.
Most environmental monitoring at sea is a snapshot: a campaign, a season, a report. What a regional agency or a protected area actually needs is the curve, not the point. When did the water warm, when did the boats come in, when did the meadow edge move.
A sail drone gives you the curve. It holds station for weeks, profiles the water every hour and logs every hull that passes, and it does it without a crew to bring home at night.
We deliver
Temperature, salinity, oxygen, turbidity and chlorophyll from the surface to the seabed, every hour, at the points you choose.
The lower limit of the posidonia meadow, measured with the echosounder and checked by the seabed camera, as a line on a chart.
Every vessel seen on AIS or camera, with time and position. Where the no-take zone was entered, and by whom.
Underwater noise levels and acoustic detections of dolphins and whales, geolocated, for the sanctuary or the impact study.
A dashboard with your credentials during the mission, and the full dataset at the end in the format your systems read.
Example
Example mission
Six weeks over the seagrass meadows of the marine protected area at the south-eastern tip of Sardinia. The drone runs survey lines across the meadow edge, profiles the water above it every hour and logs every hull that enters the zone. The protected area receives the edge as a chart and the water as a time series.
Example mission, not yet flown
How it runs
We define the area, the parameters and the sampling with your technical office. The output is a mission plan and a number of sea days.
Sea days are a service, not equipment. That fits a services tender or a framework agreement, and we help write the technical annex.
The mission runs from our control room. Your office follows it on the dashboard and can ask for a change of plan.
The dataset lands in your format, with the metadata a monitoring programme requires. A summary report follows within two weeks.
Questions
No more than a sailing dinghy. There is no engine, no propeller and nothing that transmits under water. Listening is passive.
Yes. Profiles, tracks and detections come as standard formats and as a live feed. The dataset is yours and stays on your infrastructure if you want it there.
As a monitoring service, with a technical annex that describes area, parameters and sea days. We have a draft annex for each line of work.
The drone runs for shelter on its own and resumes when the sea drops. Sea days lost to weather are not billed.
Next step
An area, a season and the parameters you report on. We come back with a mission plan and the sea days it takes.