Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
OCEANS, 2001. MTS/IEEE Conference and Exhibition
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-933957-28-9
DOI :
10.1109/OCEANS.2001.968033
