V-Robot

Japanese: ブイロボット
V-Robot
An unmanned buoy used for marine weather observations in the open ocean. The buoy robots used in Japan and the United States are disk-shaped buoys with a diameter of 6 to 12 meters that are anchored to the seabed and automatically observe wind direction, wind speed, air temperature, air pressure, dew point, precipitation, wave height, ocean current direction and speed, and water temperature, and report the observed information, along with the buoy's position and direction, to a ground station by radio, either directly or via a geostationary meteorological satellite. The Japan Meteorological Agency installed one in the Sea of ​​Japan in 1970, and near a fixed point in the south in 1973. → Fixed point observation → Related topics Wireless robot observation | Robot

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Japanese:
外洋上の海洋気象観測に使用する無人のブイ。日本,米国が使用しているブイロボットは,直径6〜12mの円盤状ブイを錨(いかり)で海底に係留し,風向,風速,気温,気圧,露点,降水量,波浪の高さ,海流の流向・流速,水温を自動的に観測し,観測したブイの位置および方位と共に,無線で直接に,あるいは静止気象衛星を経由して地上局に通報している。気象庁では1970年日本海に,1973年には南方定点付近に設置した。→定点観測
→関連項目無線ロボット観測|ロボット

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