AUV Deployment

A USGS technician and contractor (GLSC; Ann Arbor, Michigan) deploy an Iver3 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) from the Research Vessel Dragonfly in Lake Michigan's Porte des Morts in Door County, Wisconsin. Data collected from the AUV are being used to characterize and map physical habitats and invasive species on the lakebed as part of a multi-agency effort within the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) to create high-resolution habitat maps to support the needs of many management partners. Photo credit: Phoebe Meston, Michigan Technical University; used with permission.