2021年9月30日 · Saildrone Inc. and the NOAA have released the first video footage gathered by an uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) from inside a major hurricane barreling across the Atlantic Ocean.

13 小时之前 · The response to Hurricane Helene demonstrated both the challenges and opportunities of using uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) in disaster management. As a Category 4 hurricane, Helene caused ...

2021年1月25日 · In clear skies over Maryland the week of January 11, NOAA scientists launched a new uncrewed small aircraft — a research drone — from a NOAA Hurricane Hunter plane to test its ability to gather weather data that could improve hurricane forecasts.

2021年10月1日 · In a world first, a 23-foot Saildrone Explorer equipped with a specially designed “hurricane” wing has collected the first video footage of the extreme weather conditions inside a Category 4 hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean. The mission is a partnership between Saildrone and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

2023年6月28日 · HAFS, NOAA’s next-generation hurricane model, aims to provide reliable forecast guidance on tropical cyclone track, intensity, and structure to NOAA’s National Hurricane Center.

2022年8月3日 · In partnership with NOAA, Saildrone Inc. is deploying seven ocean drones to collect data from hurricanes during the 2022 hurricane season with the goal of improving hurricane forecasting. For the first year, two saildrones will track hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico.

“One drone recorded an extreme hurricane wind speed of 240 miles per hour just a few hundred feet above the ocean surface.” During a flight into Hurricane Rafael, the team deployed the latest tool in NOAA’s hurricane research toolbox: StreamSonde, a new type of storm observation instrument developed by the Finland-based company Skyfora.

A collaboration between the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Saildrone, the company that builds innovative sailing drones, sent a robust robot into Hurricane...

2025年3月5日 · Drones offered a promising solution for measuring in more locations and at altitudes where crewed aircraft would never fly. Yet deploying drones to record the inner workings of a hurricane presented serious challenges, he said. The team needed to drop an aircraft contained in a cylinder from a plane flying at more than 250 mph inside a hurricane.

2024年7月2日 · In the hours after Hurricane Beryl made landfall on the island of Carriacou, a floating ocean drone intercepted the northern edge of the historically powerful storm in the Caribbean Sea.