USV supports mapping of global seabed

An uncrewed surface vessel fitted with metocean sensors, feeding into a cloud-based analytics platform, is set to support one of the maritime sector’s largest data gaps, the mapping of the world’s ocean floor. The technology, developed under the Deep Blue Project and Deep platform, has been brought into the Seabed 2030 Project, which is now in partnership with the consultancy behind it, BMT.

The Deep Blue Project pairs autonomous vessels with metocean sensors and onboard analytics to collect maritime data continuously and in real time, without the vessel-time and crewing costs of conventional survey work. BMT Deep, the accompanying platform, processes that data into