Product Overview
Next Generation Long Endurance Glider
The Slocum Sentinel Glider is the next generation of autonomous ocean gliders – this ultra-long endurance uncrewed vehicle allows for over a year of persistent ocean monitoring and has the size and energy to address the widest range of oceanographic missions.
Operations with greater quantities and higher-energy hardware/sensors.
- Greater volume for additional batteries
- Greater internal space available for sensors and other hardware
- Multiple locations available for external hardware integrations
- Up to 8 sensors can be operated simultaneously
Operations over greater distances and more diverse operational areas
- Operations in areas with greater changes in density
- Operations in areas with higher currents
- Data gathering over larger operational areas
- Faster boat-free transit to remote areas of operation
Operations for extended mission endurance
- Energy available to execute missions in terms of years, not months
- Energy available to operate several high-powered sensor / hardware options simultaneously
- Less rationing of energy, more data gathering
- Decreased operational cost of launch and recovery due to greater mission lengths
Trusted Capabilities of the Slocum Glider
- Builds on the trusted technology and capabilities of the most-used glider vehicle in the world
- Piloting, communications, and data visualization through the Slocum Fleet Mission Control (SFMC) software suite
- Sensor, Hardware, and Software options available on the Slocum G3 Glider are also available on the Sentinel Glider
- Decades of glider engineering and support experience from Teledyne Webb Research
