Originally Posted by JD-EE
2k by 2k by 16 bits is 8 megabytes. That times 100,000 is 800 gigabytes.
Oops, I got very little sleep last night.
The REMUS vehicles have several nx100GB hard drives for the camera, SS sonar and other data. There is little problem with HDs in AUVs, though 250GB solid state drives are also available for more $$.
I can buy a 1TB laptop drive at our local office supply store. No one would go to sea for this work without adequate media for storing the data to be acquired. I expect they have a RAID array to hold the data from the many missions.
For reference, I am just reading a book (Project Azorian) about the location and attempted salvage of the Soviet K-129 submarine at a depth of about 5700m. In 1968 the US Navy took 20,000
film pictures of the site, with 9000 showing parts of the wreck.