arcticocean.dev

#Arctic Ocean | Development

#Polar Portal | Danish Research Institution

#Arctic NOAA | Arctic Program

#Nist | Arctic Research

#Global Change | MIT

#Data Cosmos | MultiSatellite Data Platform | Open Cosmos

#Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) | Climate, environmental, and earth system research

#Awi | Alfred Wegener Institute

#General Oceanics | Oceanographic and Environmental Research and Monitoring Equipment

#Mbari Ctd Rosette | MBARI | Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

#Whoi Rosette Sampler | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

#Tos Oceanography | Arctic Ocean Water Mass Structure and Circulation

#Ideo Columbia Arctic Rosette | Columbia Climate School

#Hidex | Analysis equipment

#Arctic Council | Intergovernmental forum

#Santa Cruz UC | Biology

#UUNL | Utrecht University

#Severe Weather | Weather patterns

#EEA | European Environment Agency

#Orbital EOS | Oil Spill Detection Identification Measurement | Open Cosmos

#Quasar | Climate Change Monitoring | Open Cosmos

#WeatherGov | National Wheather Service

#FleetScience | Research

#Climate4you | Observing average global air temperature change | Tide gauges along coasts | Ocean warming | Changes in atmospheric CO2

#Windy | Airport Wheather Forecast

#NCEI | National Centers for Environmental Information

#EPAGov | Environmental Protection Agency

#Earth Observatory | NASA

#Earth System Model | MIT

#SeaDataCloud | Temperature and Salinity historical data

#Global sea levels rising | Water from melting ice sheets and glaciers increasing | Expansion of seawater as it warms | NASA sea level data

#Salinity Ocean Sciences | NASA

#Barents Blue project | Horisont Energi | Port of Rotterdam | Barents Sea | Arctic Ocean

#Neste | Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAS) | Renewable diesel | Renewable feedstock for polymers and chemicals | Developing chemical recycling to combat the plastic waste challenge | Accelerating shifting to circular economy | Creating solutions for migitating climate change

#Ambri | Batteries for clean energy | Liquid Metal Battery | Self heating and regulating | Calcium and antimony as material | Rapid deployment | Scalable | Internal operating temperature 500˚ C | Desert | Arctic | Antarctic | Third Pole | Shipped cells inactive at ambient temperature | Heaters bringing cells to operating temperature | No degradation, air conditioning, replaceable nor any serviceable components | MIT | GroupSadoway Lab | Boston Metal

#High seas treaty | International Union for Conservation of Nature | Biodiversity protection | International Seabed Authority | Marine environment threats pollution from coastal infrastructure and dumping | Marine protected areas

#Arctic amplification | Finnish Meteorological Institute | Climate change | Arctic region | Arctic Circle | Carbon Brief | Barents sea | Temperature trends | Models | Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

#AST Space Mobile | AST n Science | Building space based cellular broadband network to be accessible by standard smartphones | 4G/5G connectivity everywhere on the planet | Automatic roaming from land networks to a space network | Connectivity anywhere without having to invest in expensive, specialized hardware

#ICEYE | Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) | Maritime monitoring

#General Atomics | Air to Air Laser Communication System | Crosslinks from aircraft to other platforms such as unmanned aircraft, maritime vessels, and space systems

#Defense Department | Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies

#Norway | NATO | Poseidon8 | P8 to bring a drone that can be released from the internal bay, fly its own surveillance missions, then return and be caught back to the bay

#SatelIoT | IoT connectivity over standard 5G NB-IoT

#Wartsila | Marine autonomy solutions

#Intel | Kapoho Point Board | Four Loihi 2 chips on its top side | Four on its underside | Up to a million neurons | Up to a billion synapses | Up to 8 million variables | Up to 1000× better energy efficiency than a state of the art CPU solver | Stackable up to eight boards | Expansion port on the board | Four boards getting up to 32 million neurons | Drones | Robotics | Gesture recognition | Scene understanding | Smell identification | Solving optimization problems | Research

#Intel | Neuromorphic computing | Biological neural computation | New algorithmic approaches | Emulating human brain interactions | Spiking neural networks (SNNs) | Simulating natural learning | Dynamically remapping neural networks | Making decisions in response to learned patterns over time | Powering autonomous AI solutions | Supporting energy efficiency and continuous learning | Sensing | Robotics | Healthcare | Large scale AI applications

#SpaceX | Satellite to cellular service

#High North Center | Nord university | News

#Greenland Institute of Natural Resources | Arctic whales facing climate threat | Narwhals | Belugas | Bowheads | Tagging | Swallowed pill sensors | Tracking temperature changes with sensors in whale stomach | Recording echolocation sounds narwhals use to find prey

#ArCeph | Tracking impacts of climate change in Arctic marine ecosystems through cephalopod diversity and life histories

#Acoustical Society of America | Killer whales spending more time in the Arctic Ocean | Underwater microphones

#Polar Bears International | Polar bears and Arctic sea ice research

#Japan Times | Turkey parliament voted to approve Finland membership in NATO | Finland brings another Arctic nation into the fold of the alliance | Its military is trained for cold weather | Important asset at a time when the High North is gaining in strategic importance | Increased presence by Russia and China in Arctic

#DoD | Arctic Strategy | New era of strategic competition | Avenue for great power competition and aggression | Geopolitical developments, especially Russia invasion of Ukraine and Finland joining NATO | U.S. now sees the region as a corridor between the Indo Pacific and European theaters of strategic engagement | Increased focus on China as a strategic competitor in the Arctic | China recent efforts to design and construct a nuclear powered science icebreaker | Technology test bed for nuclear aircraft carriers

#Aberystwyth University | Remote sensing of glacier mass balance

#G7 | Building network of undersea communication cables to serve developing and emerging countries

#Conservation X Labs | Sentinel Smart Camera | AI-enabled field monitoring system | Helping better understand and protect wildlife and the people with it in the field | Hardware and software base of a fully-integrated AI camera platform for wildlife conservation and field research | Appliying AI to modern sensors and connectivity to deploy a faster, longer-running, more effective option straight out of the box | Running onboard detection algorithms | Autonomously detecting and addressing threats on frontlines of biodiversity crisis | Detecting poaching and wildlife trafficking, invasive species, and endangered species | Giving conservationists real-time information on events in the wild and ability to respond to threats through smart, data-driven decisions

#Norway | Arctic and sub-Arctic sea floor mining | Opening area roughly the size of Germany to deep-sea mining | Norwegian Sea | Barents Sea | Up to 4,000m deep | Polymetallic nodules, containing high concentrations of copper, nickel, cobalt

#International Seabed Authority | Rules for seafloor mining

#European Academy of Sciences | Warned of the catastrophic consequences of deep sea mining

#Advanced Navigation | Inertial measurement unit (IMU) | Heading reference system (AHRS) | Acoustic navigation | AI-based acoustic processing techniques | Subsea transponder | Sidney, Australia

#Yamaha Marine | 450 hp hydrogen-powered V-8 outboard | Three 6-foot-long cylindrical-shaped hydrogen fuel tanks | H2 machine operates by using hydrogen in its combustion chambers | H2 tanks are positioned low and centrally to enhance stability | H2 tanks size demands rethinking of future boat designs, hulls specifically tailored for hydrogen storage | Hydrogen storage system adds considerable weight to vessel | Volumetric energy density of hydrogen is lower, requiring larger tanks | Partners: Roush Performance, Regulator Marine

#Feadship | Hydrogen-cell superyacht | Double-walled cryogenic tank in dedicated room | 4 tons of hydrogen | Cruising protected marine zones.| Cryogenic storage of liquefied hydrogen in superyacht interior | No regulations for hydrogen storage and fuel-cell systems on superyacht

#Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) | Developing international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution | Raising awareness about the serious impacts of plastic pollution on both humans and nature | Global bans and phase-outs of the most harmful and problematic plastic products and chemicals | Global product design requirements to ensure all plastic produced is safe to reuse and recycle as part of global non-toxic circular economy

#Tampere University | Pneumatic touchpad | Soft touchpad sensing force, area and location of contact without electricity | Device utilises pneumatic channels | Can be used in environments such as MRI machines | Soft robots | Rehabilitation aids | Touchpad does not need electricity | It uses pneumatic channels embedded in the device for detection | Made entirely of soft silicone | 32 channels that adapt to touch | Precise enough to recognise handwritten letters | Recognizes multiple simultaneous touches | Ideal for use in devices such as MRI machines | If cancer tumours are found during MRI scan, pneumatic robot can take biopsy while patient is being scanned | Pneumatic device can be used in strong radiation or conditions where even small spark of electricity would cause serious hazard

#Allen Institute for Artifical Intelligence | AI for the Environment | Robot planning precise action points to perform tasks accurately and reliably | Vision Language Model (VLM) controlling robot behavior | Introducing automatic synthetic data generation pipeline | Instruction-tuning VLM to robotic domains and needs | Predicting image keypoint affordances given language instructions | RGB image rendered from procedurally generated 3D scene | Computing spatial relations from camera perspective | Generating affordances by sampling points within object masks and object-surface intersections | Instruction-point pairs fine-tune language model | RoboPoint predicts 2D action points from image and instruction, which are projected into 3D using depth map | Robot navigates to these 3D targets with motion planner | Combining object and space reference data with VQA and object detection data | Leveraging spatial reasoning, object detection, and affordance prediction from diverse sources | Enabling to generalize combinatorially.| Synthetic dataset used to teach RoboPoint relational object reference and free space reference | Red and ground boxes as visual prompts to indicate reference objects | Cyan dots as visualized ground truth | NVIDIA | | Universidad Catolica San Pablo | University of Washington

#Astera Labs | Intelligent Connectivity Platform | High-speed connectivity integrated circuits (ICs), modules, boards | Connectivity System Management and Optimization Software | Providing hyperscaler customers ability to deploy and operate high-performance AI and cloud infrastructure | Software-defined IC architecture | Distributed microcontrollers and sensors | Real-time link and device monitoring | Smart Fabric Switches | PCIe 6 fabric switch | Delivering maximum predictable performance to increase GPU utilization | Protocol and performance optimization for increased data transfer efficiency | Real-time telemetry data | Built-in protocol analyzer with link state history and timestamps | Full non-destructive eye scan for RX Lane margining | Self-test features to minimize link downtime and accelerate fault isolation | AI scale-up (GPU-to-GPU) | AI clusters | Generative AI applications | Nvidia supplier

#EIDEL | Developing instruments and systems for space | Participates development of CCSDS Unified Space Link Protocol

#CHC Navigation | Solutions for mapping, navigation, and positioning | GNSS systems | LiDAR

#Wilhelmsen | Smart Rope | Measuring unit embedded within Timm Master rope | Making mooring operations safer and more efficient | Improving longevity for ropes | Unit transmits key tension, time and temperature information via wireless communication to command module on bridge | New mooring lines can be ordered and delivered when needed, not based on arbitrary schedules | Bridge sees tension in each of their mooring lines via app | Reduced life span if mooring ropes are used to manoeuvre out of port | Lack of insight into rope usage leads to inefficient replenishment | Visual inspections are not sufficient to determine if ropes are deteriorating faster than expected

#Submarinecablemap.com | Submarine Cable Map

#VORAGO | Radiation hardened and radiation tolerant microcontrollers and microprocessors | High-volume manufacturing to harden commercially designed semiconductor component | Empowers mission success | Radiation-hardened ICs that excel in extreme environments | ARM | Texas Instruments | Brainchip | Custom hardware and firmware solutions tailored to withstand extreme environments | Ensuring that mission-critical components remain resilient | Custom solutions, armed with space-grade electronics and an ARM Cortex microcontrollers | International Space Station: dies measuring the effects of protons and cosmic rays | Satelites: devices utilized in Department of Defense Space Test Program (STP) missions | CubeSats: ARM microvontroller | Semiconductor components and solutions for extreme temperature environments up to +200°C

#Saronic | Port Alpha | Shipyard designed to build autonomous ships for hybrid fleet | Investors: General Catalyst, a16z, Caffeinated Capital, 8VC | Delivering new classes of unmanned ships | U.S. Navydeclared need for hybrid fleet which integrates significant number of unmanned systems operating alongside manned platforms

#MemryX | Edge accelerated AI System software | SDK APIs for efficient AI processing | Hardware | Compile AI model(s) making executable file | PCIe or USB interface | x86, ARM, RISC-V processors | Windows, Linux operating systems

#GeorgePoveromo | Radar for Marlin

#RokMax | Rods, reels, lures, tackle and other gear for marlin fishing

#AST Space Mobile | AST n Science | Building space based cellular broadband network to be accessible by standard smartphones | 4G/5G connectivity everywhere on the planet | Automatic roaming from land networks to a space network | Connectivity anywhere without having to invest in expensive, specialized hardware

#NVidia | Dexterous robot development | Manipulating objects with precision, adaptability, and efficiency | Fine motor control, coordination, ability to handle a wide range of tasks, often in unstructured environments | Key aspects of robot dexterity include grip, manipulation, tactile sensitivity, agility, and coordination | Robot dexterity fevelopment for manufacturing, healthcare, logistics | Dexterity enabling automation in tasks that traditionally require human-like precision

#e-con Systems | Camera solutions for NVIDIA platforms | Full HD Global Shutter Camera for Jetson AGX Orin | Jetson AGX Orin: 64GB module, 275 TOPS with power configurable 15W and 60W | Multiple 4k ultra-lowlight camera for NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin | Global shutter | Rolling shutter | Autofocus and fixed focus | High resolution and frame rate | High dynamic range | High sensitivity in both visible and NIR regions | Superior color reproduction | MIPI and GMSL2 interfaces | Camera SDK configured to support Isaac SDK | Multi-camera support | NVIDIA Isaac GEMs ROS: GPU-accelerated packages for ROS2 application | Isaac ROS GEMs help to assess camera position with regard to its starting point | Isaac ROS GEMs empower robotic applications to maneuver and navigate through complicated environments | Installing ROS 2 requires Ubuntu 20.04 | Board cameras | USB 3.0 cameras | Autonomous mobile robots, autonomous shopping

#Viasat | Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM) | Mission led by Space Norway subsidiary Heosat |.ASBM-1 and ASBM-2 sstellites host GX10A and GX10B Ka-band payloads | Arctic has rapidly growing connectivity demand | Broadband to civilian, government and military users in Arctic | Viasat expanding its broadband capacity with five Ka-band satellites under construction

#Space Norway | ASBM satellites launched by Viasat major step closer to providing broadband to civilian, government and military users in Arctic

#Blue Atlas Robotics | Self-operating service robot that performs underwater surveys | Shared data platform collecting data from selected Nordic vendors of airborne and subsea drone systems | Sentinus 2 robot live-streamed high-quality underwater data during subsea surveillance operation using 5G in controller unit | Smultaneous aerial streams, enabling comprehensive surveillance solution that covered both above and below water | With minimal equipment, mission preparation becomes effortless, offering greater flexibility | Vision-lock to target for efficient mission ensuring the best quality of data | Point clouds | 3D models | Underwater assets managrment | Visual inspection outputs for vessel bottoms | In-water propeller inspections | Sea chest inspections | Inspecting bow thrusters

#Skyhawk | Wireless Vessel Monitoring System | 915 MHz RF tech | Verizon IoT, | Over-the-air updates | Wake-on-radio receiver technology | Decentralized architecture | Any Oversea hub can detect RF communications from any Oversea sensor | Communications relayed via cellular modem to Skyhawk servers.| Each sensor and hub designed to operate for years on single set of AA batteries | Oversea app and airtime subscription required

#uWare Robotics | Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)

#SubC Imaging | Integrated cameras, software, and remote solutions for deep-sea research

#Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA) | Surveillance of vessels in the Arctic Regions of Norway (NAVAREA XIX) | Investing to space industry

#Norwegian Institute of Marine Research | Arctic Sea research

#Norwegian Polar Institute | Icebreaking research vessel Kronprins Haakon | Arctic Sea research

#University of Tromso | Tromso Forskningstiftelse | Arctic Sea research

#UK Marine Biological Association | Marine heat waves research

#Argo | Collecting information from inside the ocean using a fleet of robotic instruments that drift with the ocean currents and move up and down between the surface and a mid water level | Floats (instruments) spend almost all their life below the surface | Observing ocean data related to climate change

#Simrad | Marine Chartplotters | Autopilots | Radar | Beam sharpening technology | ZoneTrack | Halo Dangerous Target Alerts | Bird+ Mode

#Norwegian Ocean Observation Laboratory (OCEANLAB / HAVLAB)

#WWF | ArcNet | Arctic blue corridors initiative | Global Arctic Programme

#OndoSense | Radar distance sensor | Sensor software: integrated into control system or used for independent quality monitoring | Object detection | Distance measurement | Position control | Agriculture: reliable height control of the field sprayer | Mining industry | Transport & Logistics | Shipping & Offshore | Mechanical and plant engineering | Metal and steel industry | Energy sector | Harsh industrial environments | Dust & smoke: no influence | Rain & snow: no influence | Radar frequency: 122GHz | Opening angle: ±3° | Measuring range: 0.3 – 40 m | Measuring rate: up to 100Hz | Output rate: up to 10 ms / 100 Hz | Measurement accuracy; up to ±1mm | Measurement precision: ±1mm | Communication protocol: RS485; Profinet, other interfaces via gateway | Switching output: 3x push-pull (PNP/NPN) | Analogue output: Current interface (4 – 20 mA) | Protection class: IP67

#Untether AI | Accelerating AI inference | PCI-Express form factor and power envelope | Over 2 PetaOps per card | Accelerator card | AI chip | Intel backef | Toronto, Canada

#Orca AI | FleetView for fleet operators and management | SeaPod | Artificial intelligence-based maritime navigation assistant, watchkeeper | Automated object detection and prioritization | All marine object detection | Curbing marine mammal strikes | Reducing whale mortality rates

#OLogic | Robotics | Pumpkin Pi i350 EVK | Edge AI platform | Designed for mainstream AI + IoT applications | Vision and voice edge processing | Facial, object, gesture, motion recognition | LPR, voice activation and speed recognition | Sound isolation, bio-tech and biometric measurements

#Field AI | Autonomous systems for machines deployed to fields | Off-road autonomy

#NavVis | Reality capture technology | Tools for creating photorealistic digital twins of physical environments | Enhancing productivity in surveying and construction | Enablinging faster and more accurate spatial data collection and analysis | Allinq Digital used NavVis VLX and automatic modeling tools to decrease Schiphol airport to scan for BIM | BOND Construction scanning and modeling facilities across Massachusetts, USA, including airports, cruise terminals, warehouses | Four people scanned terminal in five working days | Point cloud cleaned and registered in under three days | Modelers work remotely through NavVis IVION | Hiding walls and ceilings toggles off visual clutter so you can focus on equipment, layouts, and assets | Point cloud cleanup | Georeferenced model alignment: NavVis IVION recognizes coordinate systems in IFC files and positions models automatically | TopoDOT integration: convert NavVis panoramas to IPRJ files

#Duatic | Rugged, weatherproof robotic arm | Actuator architecture | Quasi-direct, water-resistant, actively-cooled drive modules with integrated electronics | Maximum Payload: 12 kg | Continuous Payload: 6 kg | Reachability: 1.0 m | Total Weight: 9.2 kg | End Effector Speed: 10 m/s | Pose Repeatability:< 1 mm | Degrees of Freedom: 6 | Power Input: 48 V | Protection: IP66 | Joint Torque Accuracy (all): ± 0.5 Nm

#ARM Institute | Robotics Manufacturing Hub | Training for robotics careers | Effort to build a national repository for AI-based manufacturing resources | Accelerating Adoption of Robotics & AI to Increase U.S. manufacturing competitiveness | Enabling innovations in robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), autonomy, and workforce development | 450+ member organizations

#Cummins | Microgrids | Providing flexible autonomous power solutions | Locally-controlled power sources that can integrate multiple energy resources such as diesel, natural gas, wind or solar power | When traditional power grid goes out, microgrid can immediately switch to backup generators and batteries | Resiliency: When one energy source fails, microgrids ensure continuous power | Decarbonization: Microgrids can incorporate renewable energy sources | Greenhouses | Healthcare facilities | Remote communities and islands