Listen, don't just look
Visual surveys for whales and dolphins only work in daylight and calm conditions, and a crewed vessel can only be in one place for as long as you can pay for it. Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) listens for the clicks, whistles and calls that marine mammals make, so it keeps working at night, in fog and in higher sea states. A Scout USV carries the hydrophones and holds station for months, turning a few survey days into a continuous acoustic record.
Built for offshore wind compliance
During piling and other noisy construction, regulators require marine mammals to be detected and an exclusion zone enforced. Scout holds station near the works, detects vocalising animals and streams detections to your team in near real time, so operations can pause the moment an animal enters the zone. Across the North Sea, Baltic and Nordic wind sectors that means a continuous, auditable record instead of weather-limited visual windows.
- Near-real-time detections over satellite to your dashboard or existing platform
- Hydrophone payload in an open bay, configured for the species and frequencies that matter
- Onboard classification with Hydrotwin AI to flag detections, not just raw audio
- Works in the dark and the weather that stops visual observers
Baselines and mitigation, not just construction
The same platform builds the multi-month acoustic baselines that consenting and research need, and supports mitigation work where the priority is detecting animals before an activity begins. See the wider ocean sensors Scout can carry, the offshore wind monitoring page, or take it fully managed as data-as-a-service. New to the terms? See the ocean robotics glossary.