Saildrone on Lake Erie

A Saildrone Explorer, a wind and solar-powered uncrewed surface vehicle being used for fishery-related research on Lake Erie. The vehicle is equipped with several environmental sensors both under and above the water, including a fisheries echosounder that uses sound to detect fish, much like a fish-finder on a fishing boat, and is operated by Saildrone, Inc. The saildrone will operate in Lake Erie’s western, central, and eastern basins, circumnavigating the lake in a clockwise direction through the end of September 2023.