IMOS - Ocean Gliders - Real-time glider deployments

The Ocean Gliders Facility (formerly known as the Australian National Facility for Ocean Gliders (ANFOG)), deploys a fleet of eight gliders around Australia. The data represented by this record, are presented in real-time. The underwater ocean glider represents a technological revolution for oceanography. Autonomous ocean gliders can be built relatively cheaply, are controlled remotely and are reusable allowing them to make repeated subsurface ocean observations at a fraction of the cost of conventional methods. The data retrieved from the glider fleet will contribute to the study of the major boundary current systems surrounding Australia and their links to coastal ecosystems. The glider fleet consists of two types; Slocum gliders and Seagliders. Slocum gliders (named for Joshua Slocum, the first solo global circumnavigator), manufactured by Webb Research Corp are optimised for shallow coastal waters (