A company operating out of St. Petersburg’s Maritime Defense and Technology Hub is using its uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) to gain a better understanding of how hurricanes rapidly grow and intensify.
While headquartered in Alameda, California, Saildrone conducts ocean mapping operations from the St. Petersburg Innovation District’s waterfront Hub. In partnership with the neighboring National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), one of the company’s USVs set sail for the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday, where it will collect and transmit critical data in real-time throughout the 2022 hurricane season.
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