The next generation of uncrewed surface and subsurface vehicles requires environmental intelligence that matches their advanced hardware. As autonomous platforms push the boundaries of endurance, autonomy, and GPS-denied navigation, their ability to execute complex missions relies on anticipating the ocean environment rather than just reacting to it.
Current Lab provides high-resolution ocean current forecasts and simulation endpoints designed to integrate directly into your mission planning software and autonomous navigation systems.
Here is how our data supports the uncrewed vehicle mission lifecycle.
Mission Planning and Execution
Accurate forecasting is foundational to safe and efficient vehicle operations. Launch and recovery (often the most vulnerable moments in any mission) depend on knowing the local currents in the specific operational window. Our gridded data API allows you to pull high-resolution current data directly into your pre-mission analysis to design missions that hold up in the real ocean.
Mitigate Risk Along Planned Routes
Unforeseen current features, such as strong eddies, shear zones, or tidal anomalies, can push vehicles off course or overwhelm propulsion systems.
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Plan ahead with high-resolution data from Current Lab
By analyzing the current forecasts along your planned route, operators can adjust waypoints to avoid these structures before the mission begins, ensuring a safer and more predictable track, especially in high-stakes environments like shallow straits.
View persistent and transient surface current structures using Current Map. Or, pull a visualization layer into your own C2 using one of our Web Map Services.
Incorporate current data into your route planning using our API, which make surface and sub-surface current profiles available in .nc and .grib2 formats.
Route and Power Optimization
For advanced operations, minimizing the impact of the environment maximizes mission capability. Long-endurance vehicles require larger, more expensive batteries when they burn energy fighting drift. Our high-resolution data allows for dynamic route optimization at the surface and throughout the water column, allowing platforms to anticipate the environment rather than react to it.
Dead Reckoning and Recovery
Whether planned or unplanned, recovering an uncrewed vehicle requires precision. Our dedicated simulation endpoints allow operators to accurately predict vehicle trajectories based on local current conditions.
