Inner Space Center's video: Mapping and Exploring the Ocean with the Next Generation of Uncrewed Surface Vessels

The Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute (OECI) will be hosting a six-part series of monthly OECI presentations as part of the NOAA Science Seminar Series. The fourth seminar of the series, “NOAA OECI: Mapping and Exploring the Ocean with the Next Generation of Uncrewed Surface Vessels”, will be streamed live, at 3pm ET on 10/20/2021. Connection links, when available, can be found at web.uri.edu/oeci/events/nsss/. This fourth seminar in the six-part series, will provide an overview of UNH’s Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping’s role in supporting our collective OECI goal of establishing a new paradigm for ocean exploration that will allow a suite of autonomous systems to extend the exploration footprint and capability of a manned vessel by conducting multiple, simultaneous, coordinated, mapping, exploration and characterization programs thus greatly increase the efficiency and effectiveness of our exploration efforts. UNH’s efforts focus on the use of autonomous or uncrewed surface vessels that can become “force multipliers” for the deployment of mapping and other sensors, or can serve as both a mapping platform and communications hub, tracking and relaying information to and from submerged platforms (the AUVs and ROVs of OECI partners WHOI, USM and OET) the “mother ship” (e.g. OET’s NAUTILUS) and to shore and beyond (using URI’s Inner Space Center). In the course of the seminar we will visit UNH’s facilities as UNH researchers describe several of the autonomous vessels that are being used to develop these new approaches. Additionally we will discuss the use of an innovative new, 22m long sail-powered uncrewed vehicle that is designed for long-duration missions to remote areas of the world’s oceans and has completed a successful maiden voyage mapping from San Franfrancisco to Hawaii. Finally, we visit the UNH-CCOM Visualization Lab where both virtual and augmented reality approaches are being developed for interacting with uncrewed vehicles and for analyzing the complex data sets derived from them. For a full OECI seminar schedule, with details on subsequent presentations, please visit: web.uri.edu/oeci/events/nsss/. URI’s Inner Space Center is pleased to be supporting this seminar series. Presentation slides and a transcript will be provided on this webpage following the live broadcasts. An archive of the six, OECI-themed, NOAA Science Seminar broadcasts will be also be available from this page. To learn more about the NOAA Science Seminar Series, which are open to the public, please send an email including the word “subscribe” to OneNOAAscienceseminars-request@list.woc.noaa.gov. Closed caption link: https://www.captionedtext.com/client/event.aspx?EventID=4918188&CustomerID=321