{"id":1022,"date":"2022-10-27T15:48:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T19:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/deepsubmergencelab\/?page_id=1022"},"modified":"2022-11-02T14:39:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T18:39:37","slug":"wave-glider","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/deepsubmergencelab\/wave-glider\/","title":{"rendered":"Wave Glider"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<h1>Wave Gliders<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/deepsubmergencelab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/149\/2022\/11\/waveglider_550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"432\" \/>Wave Gliders are autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) designed for deep-water supervision. By acting as a communications relay, a Wave Glider can monitor and redirect autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/what-we-do\/explore\/underwater-vehicles\/auvs\/sentry\/\"><em>Sentry<\/em><\/a> even while remote from the vehicle, allowing the AUV to operate independently from a research ship.<\/p>\n<p>Wave Glider features include continuous access to Iridium satellite communications. This enables remote monitoring of dive progress, including up-linking science data and optionally modifying the AUV&#8217;s mission in response.<\/p>\n<p>To do this, the Wave Gliders house a WHOI Micro Modem. One of the payload modules contains an Iridium modem\/GPS receiver module that relays messages to and from the Micro Modem over Iridium as Short Burst Data (SDB).<\/p>\n<p>Unlike a vehicle requiring launch and recovery on the same schedule as the AUV, which could be a burden to operations teams and clutter the deck, Wave Gliders are capable of remaining deployed between dives, ideally for an entire cruise.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wave Gliders &nbsp; Wave Gliders are autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) designed for deep-water supervision. By acting as a communications relay, a Wave Glider can monitor and redirect autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) like Sentry even while remote from the vehicle, allowing the AUV to operate independently from a research ship. Wave Glider features include continuous access&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/deepsubmergencelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/deepsubmergencelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/deepsubmergencelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/deepsubmergencelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/deepsubmergencelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/deepsubmergencelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/deepsubmergencelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1022\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/deepsubmergencelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}