Seatrac’s USV Proves Instrumental to Collaborative Shallow Mapping Campaign in GoM & Tampa Bay

SeaTrac SP-48 on survey mission. (Photo credit: SeaTrac)

More than 50 percent of our nation’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) remains unmapped, and experts say new approaches are needed.

“Coastal areas may be the easiest to get to, but they are the hardest to survey from large ships that have depth limitations and may be less nimble than smaller craft,” according to Steve Murawski, who heads the Center for Ocean Mapping and Innovative Technologies (COMIT) at the University of South Florida’s College of Marine Science (USF CMS).

This article was featured in ON&T January 2022, click here to read the full story.

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