SGER: An Open Ocean Testbed - Autonomous Vehicle Validation Experiment (AVVEX)

目前对世界上大多数海洋的物理、地球化学和生态过程特征的了解受到我们在空间和时间上以足够高的频率对海洋环境进行采样的能力的限制。特别是在地理上固定的海洋时间序列站，如百慕大大西洋时间序列（BATS）和夏威夷海洋时间序列（HOT），数据流的解释受到我们在周围水域进行经济测量的能力的严重限制。在这个项目中，一个主要海洋时间序列站点的科学主任将探索使用自动驾驶车辆作为平台，在BATS站点周围的水域进行物理和化学测量。如果成功，这种新技术最终可能彻底改变我们监测公海和沿海海洋环境的方法，因为取代相对昂贵的有人驾驶海洋测量船在技术上是可行的。

Current understanding of the physical, geochemical, and ecological processes characteristic of most of the world ocean is limited by our ability to sample the marine environment at sufficiently high frequency in space and time. In particular at geographically fixed ocean time series stations, such as the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series (BATS) and the Hawaiian Ocean Time Series (HOT), interpretation of the data stream is severely limited by our ability to make measurements economically in surrounding waters. In this project, the scientific director of one of the major ocean time series sites will explore the use of autonomous vehicles as platforms for making physical and chemical measurements in the waters surrounding the BATS station. If successful, such new technology could eventually revolutionize our approach to monitoring open ocean as well as coastal marine environments inasmuch as replacement of relatively expensive, manned oceanographic vessels becomes technologically feasible.