Platforms. Components. Operations.
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Surface vessels, ROVs, AUVs, underwater gliders, sonar, subsea communications, and the support systems around them.
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Photo: Tristen Tagliaferri / USGS. Public domain.Compare AUV and ROV launch and recovery systems, from surface capture to submerged docking, with load paths, heave compensation and vessel interfaces.
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Photo: Gulf of Mexico Deep Sea Habitats Expedition/NOAA/OAR/OER. CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/Understand ROV tether management architecture, top-hat and garage layouts, control interfaces, excursion limits, failure modes, and recovery requirements.
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Photo: NOAA National Ocean Service. Public domain.Understand underwater glider mission planning: currents, dive profiles, energy, sensor interfaces, data quality, failure responses and recovery arrangements.
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Photo: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2019 Technology DemonstrationHow underwater acoustic communication works, including modem architecture, latency, interfaces, JANUS interoperability, failure diagnosis, and AUV applications.
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Photo: Exploring Carolina Canyons expeditionHow AUV navigation combines INS, DVL, depth, acoustic fixes, and terrain matching, with integration requirements, failure modes, and mission tradeoffs.
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Photo: Art Howard, Global Foundation for Ocean Exploration/NOAA Ocean ExplorationCompare USBL, LBL, and SBL architecture, accuracy limits, calibration, integration, and mission fit for subsea vehicles and operations.
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Photo: NOAA Office of Coast SurveyUnderstand USV components, control loops, power budgets, data interfaces, and failure responses, with examples from research vessels and documented autopilot behavior.
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Photo: ThayerMahan, Inc., Kraken Robotics, and the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and ResearchCompare underwater sonar types for unmanned vehicles: side-scan, multibeam, SAS, forward-looking, and sub-bottom systems, with interfaces and failure modes.
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Photo: NOAA Office of Coast SurveyCompare USVs and crewed survey boats on data quality, integration, access, recovery, productivity and suitable missions before choosing a survey platform.
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Photo: NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2025 Beyond the BlueChoose between an ROV, a powered AUV, and an underwater glider by matching control, endurance, payload, data, recovery, and support needs.
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Photo: U.S. Air Force photo by Samuel King Jr.GNSS-denied aircraft do not replace GPS with one sensor. Learn how inertial, visual, terrain, radio, and integrity layers form a resilient navigation stack.
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