Imagine you are a surveyor, comfortable seated by a lake or a sunny beach observing a small, autonomous boat performing a bathymetric survey. Your only responsibility is to monitor the screen where bathymetric data is covering more and more of your survey area and to signal other boats with a honk if they cross your path.
Is it just a naive surveyor’s dream? We may be closer to such a solution than you think.

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