Patent ID: 9453828
Filing Date: 2016-09-27
CPC Classification: B63B,G01N,Y10S

Claim Text:
1. A method for identifying and sampling target materials with one or more buoys, comprising: deploying one or more buoys to a location in a body of water, wherein at least one of the one or more buoys has a buoy monitoring section that includes a measurement component and a sampling component, wherein the sampling component comprises a sampling assembly comprising a plurality of individual sampling containers; obtaining measurement data associated with the body of water with a measurement component; determining whether target material is present in the measurement data, wherein the target material comprises one or more of biological, chemical, hydrocarbon and any combination thereof; obtaining a sample of the target material with the sampling component when the measurement data indicates the presence of the target material; and storing the obtained sample in one or more of the individual sample containers.