These underwater technologies work together to provide geophysical assessments, underground exploration, and search and recovery.
Cameras and lighting on the cars may be used to identify potential target. When a target of interest is identified using sonar, the cars would become programmed with missions that were intended to operate significantly closer to the bottom. This may enable them to record images of the target area for identifying them.
Because the area covered by each image is considerably smaller than that covered by radar, making a search for this would only be conducted when a goal of interest has been identified, so it would require much stiffer survey tracks.
SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN ROBOTICS
Ocean Infinity has significantly improved its sea automation and data analysis capabilities since its past research in 2018. It has demonstrated its ability to deploy several cars at depths of up to 6, 000 meters at once.
Because each vehicle has its own piece of the bottom, the coverage area is considerably increased. This will make the designated hunt area more effectively and comprehensively surveyed.
When the vehicles are returned on board, the data that the vehicles have collected may be combined to create detailed maps of the research areas.