Sofar Ocean Technologies
Sofar Ocean Technologies is a San Francisco-based ocean-intelligence company formed in 2019 through the merger of Spoondrift and OpenROV.
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Sofar Ocean Technologies is a San Francisco-based ocean-intelligence company formed in 2019 through the merger of Spoondrift and OpenROV. It operates a large privately deployed real-time ocean sensor network (Spotter buoys, Smart Mooring) and sells Wayfinder, an ML-enhanced weather-routing and voyage-optimization platform, to shipping operators, the U.S. Navy and researchers.
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Sofar Ocean Technologies is a San Francisco-based ocean-intelligence company formed in 2019 through the merger of Spoondrift and OpenROV. It operates a large privately deployed real-time ocean sensor network (Spotter buoys, Smart Mooring) and sells Wayfinder, an ML-enhanced weather-routing and voyage-optimization platform, to shipping operators, the U.S. Navy and researchers.
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