Apart from observations from ships at sea, which go back to the beginnings of marine wireless transmissions, the US has only been deploying dedicated data buoys since the 1940s. Early buoys were ...
The massive 50-foot buoy was deployed near Rottnest Island off the western coast of Australia. Screengrab from Curtin University's YouTube video Some ocean buoys are used to mark channels in busy ...
"Sensors on the buoy capture and analyze colors within sunlight reflected from the ocean to measure algae levels. This data is sent to shore via the mobile network, where it then helps fine-tune ...