Environmental Monitoring News & Articles

Profile Spotlight: Boxfish Robotics’ Underwater ROVs & AUVs

Boxfish Robotics has partnered with OST to showcase its underwater robotics solutions, serving the inspection, research, offshore energy, aquaculture, and film-making industries

Nov 19, 2024
Profile Spotlight: eSonar’s Acoustic & Sonar Technologies

OST has been showcasing eSonar’s marine acoustic and sonar developments, providing access to underwater environmental data and protecting endangered marine wildlife

Nov 18, 2024
New Buoy Units Released for Offshore Wind Resource Monitoring

Petrobras will release new BRAVO buoy units, floating LiDAR models that can record weather variables and sea currents, to collect, monitor, and assess offshore wind resources

Nov 01, 2024
AIMS Researchers Prepare for Great Barrier Reef Coral Spawning

AIMS scientists are employing advanced methods to study the annual mass coral spawning on the Great Barrier Reef, focusing on ways to enhance coral resilience and reef restoration

Nov 01, 2024
Marine Sediment Coring System Commissioned in Sweden

A Mini Vibrocorer system has been commissioned by OSIL for Sweco in Sweden, providing an innovative solution for sediment sampling in diverse marine environments

Oct 31, 2024
Subsea Perception System Launched for Offshore Wind Farms

Beam’s new SubSLAM X3 is an underwater perception system designed for the monitoring and maintenance of offshore wind farms, integrating AI, robotics, and advanced SLAM tech

Oct 22, 2024
Autonomous Split-Beam Sonar Launched

BioSonics has unveiled the DTZ Explore, a compact, low-power, split beam sonar system, providing the most scientifically defensible data possible on a wide range of organisms

Oct 21, 2024
AI-Integrated Multispectral Sensor Aids Whale Detection in Canada

In a collaborative effort, Overwatch Imaging’s TK-7 sensor is being tested to detect endangered North Atlantic right whales in Canadian waters, helping marine authorities to reduce the risk of vessel strikes

Oct 07, 2024
Partnership to Accelerate Marine Scientific Innovation & Discovery

Greensea IQ and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have partnered to develop future vehicles and technologies supporting scientific research across ocean environments

Oct 03, 2024
Vital Ocean Current Data from the Gulf of Mexico Gathered Remotely

SeaTrac and Sonardyne collaborate to remotely collect Loop Current System information from the U.S. Gulf of Mexico

Sep 30, 2024
Advanced ADCP Launched for Wave & Current Data Collection

Teledyne has introduced the Workhorse Proteus, an advanced acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) for collecting detailed current and wave data in oceans, estuaries, and rivers

Sep 25, 2024
Profile Spotlight: SatLab Geosolutions’ Surveying, Positioning, & Sensing Technology

OST has been aiding SatLab Geosolutions in showcasing its advanced and innovative products, based on cutting-edge GNSS, sonar and USV technologies with a focus on R&D

Sep 25, 2024
UUVs Delivered for High-Resolution Ocean Floor Mapping

HII has delivered two customized UUVs to NOAA for enhanced high-resolution ocean floor mapping, featuring a synthetic aperture sonar module, additional energy module, and more

Sep 17, 2024
Subsea Robotics Company to Showcase at Marine Science & Tech Conference

Boxfish Robotics is attending AMSA-NZMSS 2024 with its advanced ROVs and new class of hovering AUV, designed to enhance marine science research and environmental monitoring

Sep 16, 2024
BIIGLE Compatibility Added to Subsea Cameras and DVRs

SubC Imaging’s Rayfin and DVR+ Overlay technology now integrate with BIIGLE (Benthic Image Indexing and Graphical Labelling Environment), improving annotation and analysis of underwater imagery

Sep 04, 2024
Autonomous Subsea Robots to Determine Melt-Rate of Ice Shelves

NASA JPL has tested a prototype robot for the IceNode project, aiming to send a fleet of autonomous robots below polar ice sheets to help determine the melt rate of ice shelves

Sep 04, 2024
Handheld Fluorometer Used to Monitor Harmful Algal Blooms

Hand-held fluorometer from Turner Designs deployed to detect and quantify potentially life-threatening Harmful Algal Blooms at the sources for drinking water treatment plants

Sep 03, 2024
New Remote Sensing Model Developed to Support Reef Recovery

AIMS has unveiled an advanced remote sensing model to identify and protect coral reef habitats, using a rugosity metric to accurately predict subsea habitats at tens to hundreds of meters

Sep 03, 2024
AUV Sensors Aid in Oil-Damaged Subsea Community Restoration

NOAA has used Voyis underwater laser scanning and imaging technology in their work to restore Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Communities damaged by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Aug 30, 2024