Dutch geo-data specialist Fugro is sending an uncrewed surface vessel (USV), said to be the largest one in its fleet, on a seabed data acquisition mission in the North Sea, which will enable Norway’s MAREANO seabed mapping program to tuck a new first under its belt with the first USV technology foray.

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