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December 2021 — The ApplicaRAD Team completed its first ocean-based research mission to test its AI marine autonomous navigation system as well as its sensor network to study CO2 absorption, water current, and temperature variables that affect carbon absorption from the atmosphere.
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The ApplicaRAD crew departed from Orange Beach, AL abord its research vessel WORLD DOMINATION on November 21st, 2021 for destination Turks & Caicos islands in order to study its AI autonomous navigational system utilizing ocean currents, weather and hazard routing, and other factors. On the same mission, the team utilized its micro sensors to test and record factors that affect the absorption of carbon from the atmosphere into the ocean. Waypoints on the voyage included Apalachicola, FL – Tarpon Springs, FL – Fort Meyers, FL – Marathon, FL – Bimini, Bahamas – Chub Cay, Bahamas – Highborne Cay, Bahamas – Great Exuma, Bahamas – Crooked Island, Bahamas – Turks & Caicos.
The voyage took 14 days with several lay days due to weather and mechanical conditions and the team was able to observe and record multiple readings to build its proprietary AI models.
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The data gathered during the voyage as well as data gathered over the next 16 months in Caribbean has enabled AppliaRAD team members to build its proprietary AI climate models that incorporate a variety of environmental variables, including: Atmospheric Temperature, Water Temperature, Barometric Pressure, Wind direction and speed, Seas, Turbidity, Current, and more. The team is utilizing the captured data to influence its modeling capabilities for better understanding the effects of carbon in the atmosphere, its absorption into the ocean, and how these are affected by other conditions. The goal is to combine the company’s models with real-time sensors under development in order to enhance predictive capabilities regarding carbon utilization.