It can gather data on objects reportedly as small as a shoebox, through clouds, day or night, for 32 hours from 18,000 metres—almost twice the cruising altitude of passenger jets.
Indeed, in a science-fiction article written some 20 years ago the late Henry Stommel, an influential Woods Hole oceanographer, imagined fleets of Slocums cruising the sea to collect scientific data.
The cruising mechanism of geology landscape in the VR-GIS based on the graphics interaction technology is studied, including the cruising technology of different data structure.