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Offshore Sensing in DeepTech Alliance Utility 2025 Program Earlier this month, Offshore Sensing took part in the kickoff of the DeepTech Alliance Utility 2025 Business Creation Program in Lisbon. Joining an exclusive group of European deeptech companies matched with leading international utility ...

An unmanned surface vehicle, unmanned surface vessel or uncrewed surface vessel (USV), colloquially called a drone boat, drone ship or sea drone, is a boat or ship that operates on the surface of the water without a crew. USVs operate with various levels of autonomy, from remote control to fully ...

On-Demand Webinar with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences BIRD, AI & Sailbuoy – Green Game Changers for the Marine Ecosystem

A new generation of ocean robots is set to improve weather forecasts and support the fight against global climate challenges.

Offshore Sensing is proud to announce a new partnership with Hydro Systems Development, Inc. (HSD) as an official reseller of the Sailbuoy in Japan.

Advancing the Future of Ocean Observation – The GEORGE project Offshore Sensing is proud to be a selected partner in GEORGE, a major Horizon Europe initiative focused on developing next-generation technologies for autonomous ocean observation. This collaboration brings together world-class marine ...

Uncrewed Surface Vessels (USVs), also known as unmanned or autonomous surface vessels, are increasingly used for oceanographic research, environmental monitoring, and offshore operations. These vessels offer a low-risk, cost-effective, and sustainable alternative to traditional crewed ships. In ...

Join our next webinar! Bird AI and Sailbuoy – Green Game Changers for the Marine Ecosystem? Date: May 28, 2025

A Year of Ocean Science Without Emission: We are proud to celebrate another year of milestones in sustainable ocean observation, made possible by the dedication of the global Sailbuoy community—users, partners, and supporters who continue to lead the way in low-impact ocean science. During 2024 ...

Autonomous operation with the Sailbuoy USV: The Sailbuoy technology makes a cutting-edge autonomous surface vessel that offers a sustainable oceanic exploration and monitoring approach. Designed to operate independently for months, the Sailbuoy harnesses wind and solar energy, significantly ...

Bird AI and Sailing Drones Bird AI and Sailbuoy – green game changers for marine ecosystem: In an exciting development that marks a significant leap forward in ecological monitoring and marine conservation, the Stockholm Resilience Centre has recently highlighted groundbreaking advancements in ...

Applications Now Open for Glider School 2025 Glider School 2025 is an intensive five-day forum held at PLOCAN headquarters from October 20 to October 24, 2025. Glider School 2025 As a proud partner, Offshore Sensing would like to promote this unique educational opportunity. It will occur from ...

Why Does Ocean Data Matter? Large amounts of data are crucial for governments to understand the impact of and for industries to make the right investment decisions. Ocean data is the backbone of informed decision-making. Ocean data to fight climate change As the most significant carbon sink, our ...

Collaborating for Better Ocean Observations Offshore Sensing and the University of Exeter, a GEORGE project partner, have teamed up to enhance autonomous ocean observations through innovative sensor technology. Creating cutting-edge solutions through ocean observations The University of Exeter is ...

A Groundbreaking Expedition This groundbreaking expedition marks innovations in marine monitoring. Two Sailbuoys—autonomous uncrewed surface vehicles designed by Offshore Sensing AS—were deployed to comprehensively survey the pelagic ecosystem at the Hywind Tampen floating wind farm. Conducted by ...

Sailbuoy to Develogic and Bundeswehr We are excited to announce our collaboration with Develogic to deliver the 3rd Sailbuoy to the Bundeswehr. This partnership combines Offshore Sensing’s expertise in autonomous ocean vessels and Develogic’s cutting-edge subsea communication technologies to create ...

Announcing Petrobas as new Sailbuoy customer Offshore Sensing is thrilled to announce a groundbreaking partnership with Petrobras, a leader in the global energy sector. This collaboration marks a significant milestone as Petrobras adopts our innovative Sailbuoy technology to enhance its ...

Introduction to Uncrewed Surface Vessels Uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) are transforming ocean exploration, environmental monitoring, and maritime security. These self-operating vessels function without onboard crew, leveraging advanced sensors, renewable energy, and AI-driven navigation. Since ...

As we marked our 10th anniversary this fall, we reflect on a decade of pioneering marine robotics and groundbreaking achievements. Established in 2014 as a spin-off from the Christian Michelsen Research (now NORCE), Offshore Sensing has been at the forefront of developing the world’s first ...

In this document, the navigation performance and characteristics are reported from a trial conducted in summer 2011 when the SailBuoy travelled a 1000-km-predefined course between Bergen (Norway) and Scotland in one month, from the 22nd of June to the 22nd of July 2011. Click the link below to read ...

Offshore Sensing, the company behind the innovative autonomous data platform Sailbuoy, has appointed Max Hartvigsen as its new CEO. Hartvigsen, who returned to Norway after 17 years in Singapore, working in leadership roles within the subsea and energy industries, brings a wealth of international ...

The SB Echo is a field-tested version of the Sailbuoy containing an EK80 (WBT) Simrad echo sounder with a 333 kHz split beam transducer. It is also equipped with oxygen, temperature and conductivity sensors. The transducer is gimbaled to ensure the best possible data. Extensive testing has been ...

An autonomous vessel, the Offshore Sensing Sailbuoy, was used for wave measurements near the Ekofisk oil platform complex in the North Sea (56.5º N, 3.2º E, operated by ConocoPhillips) from 6 to November 20, 2015. Being 100 % wind-propelled, the Sailbuoy has two-way communication via the Iridium ...

The GLIDER Project forms part of the Norwegian Research Council DEMO2000 and is being managed by Akvaplan-niva. The GLIDER project will launch three types of ocean-going, self-propelled and dynamic platforms (also called drones). Unmanned ocean vehicles collect field data and send it via satellite ...

This study introduces an alternative to the existing methods for measuring ocean currents based on a recently developed technology. The SailBuoy is an unmanned surface vehicle powered by wind and solar panels that can navigate autonomously to predefined waypoints and record velocity profiles using ...

Mid-summer vertical behavior of a high-latitude oceanic zooplankton community Vertical behavior, such as diel vertical migration (DVM) and swarming are widespread among zooplankton. At higher latitudes, synchronized DVM is mostly absent during summer and predominantly herbivorous copepods tend to ...

Polar Front Experiment: Upper layers velocity field observation using the Sailbuoy integrated current profiler. Acquiring a proper perspective of the oceanic currents, particularly in the upper ocean, is important for both scientific and industrial aspects. Those two aspects meet in answering some ...

Autonomous Surface and Underwater Vehicles as Effective Ecosystem Monitoring and Research Platforms in the Arctic—The Glider Project Effective ocean management requires integrated and sustainable ocean observing systems enabling us to map and understand ecosystem properties and the effects of human ...

An autonomous vessel, the Offshore Sensing Sailbuoy, was used for wave measurements near the Ekofisk oil platform complex in the North Sea (56.5º N, 3.2º E, operated by ConocoPhillips) from 6 to 20 November 2015. Being 100 % wind propelled, the Sailbuoy has two-way communication via the Iridium ...

Bergen, Norway – November 23rd ,2015 Sailbuoy Ekofisk Wave measurement sea-trial: In a project funded by the Norwegian Research Council, the Sailbuoy has completed a 3-week sea trial in the validation process as a wave measurement platform. For 2 weeks, the Sailbuoy “SB Wave” was stationed 10 km ...

An experimental deployment of a new type of unmanned vessel is presented. The Christian Michelsen Research SailBuoy, a remotely-controlled surface vehicle, sampled near-surface properties during a two-month mission in the northern Gulf of Mexico in March – May, 2013. The vessel speed over ground ...

From two months in 2013, an unmanned ocean vessel developed among the fjords and sounds of Norway sailed among the oil rigs and open water of the Gulf of Mexico. A recently published study details the SailBuoy’s 2,400-kilometer journey. Bergen, Norway-based CMR Instrumentation’s SailBuoy is a ...

An experimental deployment of a new type of unmanned vessel is presented. The Christian Michelsen Research SailBuoy, a remotely-controlled surface vehicle, sampled near-surface properties during a two-month mission in the northern Gulf of Mexico in March–May, 2013. Averaged over the entire ...

In this document, the preliminary data are reported from a deployment of SailBuoy conducted in winter 2012, off Grand Canaria. The SailBuoy was equipped with conductivity-temperature sensors and an oxygen optode.

The SailBuoy, an unmanned surface vessel, embodies this progress, combining the ability to navigate and move autonomously with robust METOCEAN instrumentation