NEPTUNE: real-time, long-term ocean and Earth studies at the scale of a tectonic plate

Author

Delaney, John ; Heath, G. Ross ; Chave, Alan ; Kirkham, Harold ; Howe, Bruce ; Wilcock, William ; Beauchamp, Patricia ; Maffei, Andrew

Author_Institution

Sch. of Oceanogr., Washington Univ., Seattle, WA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1366

Abstract

The NEPTUNE project will establish a linked array of undersea observatories on the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate. The NEPTUNE infrastructure, consisting of fiber-optic/power cable and junction boxes, will provide significant amounts of power and an Internet communications link to sensors and sensor networks on, above, and below the seafloor. This observatory will provide a new kind of research platform for real-time, long-term, plate-scale studies in the ocean and Earth sciences

Keywords

Internet; geophysical equipment; marine telemetry; oceanographic equipment; optical fibre telemetry; power cables; power supplies to apparatus; submarine cables; tectonics; Internet communications link; Juan de Fuca plate; NEPTUNE infrastructure; NEPTUNE project; North East Pacific Time-series Underwater Networked Experiment; fiber-optic cable; junction boxes; linked array; power cable; power link; real-time long-term plate-scale studies; sensor networks; sensors; tectonic plate; undersea observatories; Earth; Geoscience; IP networks; Observatories; Oceans; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber sensors; Power cables; Sea floor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS, 2001. MTS/IEEE Conference and Exhibition

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-933957-28-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.2001.968033

Filename

968033