Enhancing Maritime Domain Awareness with a First-of-its-Kind, Self-Powered Ocean Buoy (IMAGE)

Naval Postgraduate School

Enhancing Maritime Domain Awareness with a First-of-its-Kind, Self-Powered Ocean Buoy

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As a maritime domain awareness technology demonstrator, the self-powered Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) PowerBuoy will enable research into real-time tracking of vessels on and under the ocean for coastal monitoring relaying data via its AT&T 5G maritime base station. It’s shown here at Monterey Bay Boatworks prior to outfitting for deployment.

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U.S. Navy photo by Dan Linehan

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