The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) joins a new edition of the Autonomous Ship Expo & Conference, an international leading forum for the uncrewed maritime navigation sector, which takes place this week in the city of Amsterdam within the framework of the Electric & Hybrid Marine Expo 2025, expecting around 2,500 attendees, 150
The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) joined the OCEANS 2025 IEEE/MTS conference, a biannual international leading forum that seeks to advance and promote ocean sciences and technologies in interdisciplinary fields from a public-private perspective through the participation of leading institutions and companies in the sector. Promoted by the international organizations Ocean Engineering Society
The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) joins on behalf of the EU’s project Mission Atlantic the international event Ocean Business 2025 on ocean-observing technologies, held at the headquarters of the National Oceanographic Center (NOC), in the city of Southampton (United Kingdom). PLOCAN participates in the event as partner representing the Mission Atlantic project
The University of Bremen’s Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM) is undertaking these days at PLOCAN facilities integration and preliminary tests works in both confined and open waters operational scenarios of a novel underwater camera-system prototype on a glider from the PLOCAN fleet, within the framework of the EU-project Mission Atlantic. The MARUM prototype is
La Plataforma Oceánica de Canarias (PLOCAN) ha iniciado una misión científica para estudiar las características del ecosistema marino macaronésico comprendido entre Canarias y Cabo Verde, utilizando un vehículo no tripulado de observación marina WaveGlider, lanzado este fin de semana en aguas próximas al Puerto de Taliarte, en Gran Canaria. El dispositivo, rumbo ya a Cabo
The fourth General Assembly of the EU’s Mission Atlantic project to detect and evaluate current and future risks covering climate change, natural hazards and human activities on Atlantic ecosystems has been held in the city of Horta, Faial island, Azores (Portugal), in the headquarters of the partner Institute for Research in Marine Sciences (OKEANOS) of
The Mission Atlantic’s USV-WaveGlider unmanned vehicle has been picked up by PLOCAN staff in waters of Taliarte after completing 1,200 nautical miles and 78 continuous days of scientific mission collecting 3D information on essential ocean variables (physical, chemical and biological), as well as map biodiversity and pressures in areas of special sensitivity in the North
The Mission Atlantic USV-WaveGlider uncrewed vehicle has been put into operation in waters of Faial Island, Azores (Portugal), to collect 3D information on essential ocean variables (physical, chemical and biological), as well as to map biodiversity, food supply and pressures on the Atlantic Ocean basin. The activity runs within the framework of the European Mission