Marine surface mapping service
Marine surface mapping service
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The problem
The problem
“Edmonds - Kingston run goes to 1-boat service after prop bent by underwater log” Shoreline Area News, Jan 2023
Logs damage propulsion systems causing repair costs and lengthy downtimes
“Over 80 Injured as High-Speed Hydrofoil Ferry Hits Whale in Japan” gCaptain News, March 2019
Hydrofoils are susceptible to impact with logs, marine life
Vessel operators today are losing money to propulsion system repairs due to impacts with marine debris.
Future high-efficiency hydrofoil vessels will struggle to avoid damaging impacts with marine debris, as well as avoid marine life.
The solution
The solution
Frequent overflights of high-traffic areas with drones collect top-down imagery of navigable waterways.
Custom-trained computer vision algorithms detect and classify objects in the water.
Object locations between scans are estimated using wind, current, behavior, and other data.
Object location data is provided to vessel operators.
Sample object detection imagery from test flights
Example object location estimation based on surface current vector fields provided by NOAA
Project Status
Project Status
This project is part of the 2025 Maritime Blue Tacoma Incubator Program. An end-to-end proof-of-concept demonstration of the service is anticipated to take place by October 2025. If you are interested in participating in this project as a data consumer, please reach out to russ@aeronautica.dev
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