Weather Buoy were going to Deploy

You can see the wind guage moving and two blinky lights powered by solar panels. The buoy's computers will store wind, wave, and light data to hard drives inside. This is a 2-month test deployment. It will be retrieved after this period and the data will be compared with other sources to determine accuracy and troubleshoot any problems. Eventually it will be deployed somewhere in S. America w/ Iridium satellite antennas to give real-time weather data.

The buoy has a boat shaped hull to make it easily towable in water compared to a round cylindrical shape.

There are three types of wind guage on this state-of-the-art buoy. Wind speed w/ direction, component wind speed (two turbines at 90 deg angle), and acoustic. The acoustic works by measuring the relative noise picked up by 6 microphones, and gives much more precision than turbine anenometers.

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