Every day, remote sensors miss over 30% of the ocean’s surface. Don’t get us wrong – satellites and planes are critical and powerful tools, especially when you need to quickly cover millions of square miles at a time. But surface sensors can deliver data with resolution and persistence that aircraft and spacecraft physically can’t achieve. Buoy-based measurements aren’t affected by inference artifacts, cloud cover, or transit periods. 

You can track the gaps in SAR satellite measurements below. The greyed-out tiles show you where key remote wave measurements haven’t been collected since Saturday!

The Kelp Smart Buoy (KSB) is built to host any payload at sea, and guarantee data delivery from any point on the Earth’s surface. KSB is a proven, sensor-agnostic, hosted payload platform, with a combined 43,000 hours at sea (and counting).

The KSB A-Size delivers all core features of the standard KSB in an A-Size sonobuoy form factor. This KSB covertly detects, identifies, and alerts on multiple overhead threats, including hypersonics, supersonic, subsonic, fixed and rotor wing aircraft.