Instead of spending weeks or months on a boat gathering data, then returning to labs to make sense of it, oceanographers say they expect to be able to order up specific requests from their desktops and download the results.
More ominous for Sun, Kraemer thinks the company has missed the boat on data storage.
Initially a project for Kik's eyes only, according to Livingston — who wanted to know if other apps were in the same boat — the data suggests that Kik users spend an average of 35 minutes inside the app whenever they open it.
Then, we have boat-positioning data, which include global positioning system (GPS) measurements, speed, trim, heel, and heading.
Redundancy between boat and user data can also be usefully combined to improve accuracy.
As complaints against the pair mounted, police began tracking the boat's GPS data.
Today, at Mobile World Congress, SanDisk announced the tiny card that packs a boat-load of data into something smaller than a U.S. dime and almost as thin as a postage stamp.
For NOAA, the builder outfitted the 5-foot, 5-inch (1.65-meter) boat with storm data-gathering sensors.
A spokeswoman for the French Office of Investigations and Analyses, which provided the search boat that found the data recorder, said it would be brought to Paris for detailed analysis.
A specific on-board instrumentation system simultaneously measures loads in the rig and sails, sailing data (wind, boat attitude and speed) and the shape of sails in real navigation conditions (flying shape).
