Title :
ESONET - European Sea Floor Observatory Network
Author :
Priede, Imants G. ; Solan, M. ; Mienert, Juergen ; Person, R. ; Van Weering, T.C.E. ; Pfannkuche, O. ; O´Neill, N. ; Tselepides, A. ; Thomsen, Laura Hohwu ; Favali, Paolo ; Gasparoni, F. ; Zitellini, N. ; Millot, A. ; Gerber, H.W. ; de Miranda, Jorge Migu
Author_Institution :
Aberdeen Univ.
Abstract :
ESONET is a proposed sub sea component of the European GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) to provide strategic long term monitoring capability in geophysics, geotechnics, chemistry, biochemistry, oceanography, biology and fisheries. To provide representative sampling around Europe 10 nodes are proposed in contrasting oceanographic regions: 1-Arctic, 2-Norwegian margin, 3-Nordic Seas, 4-Porcupine/Celtic, 5-Azores, 6-Iberian, 7-Ligurian, 8-East Sicily, 9-Hellenic, 10-Black Sea. In addition, a mobile response observatory will be available for rapid deployment in areas of anthropogenic or natural disasters to provide data for environment management and government agencies
Keywords :
oceanographic regions; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing; seafloor phenomena; Arctic; Azores; Black Sea; ESONET; East Sicily; Europe; European GMES; European Sea Floor Observatory Network; Global Monitoring for Environment and Security; Hellenic; Iberian; Ligurian; Nordic Seas; Norwegian margin; Porcupine/Celtic; anthropogenic disasters; biochemistry; biology; chemistry; environment management; fisheries; geophysics; geotechnics; government agency; long term monitoring capability; mobile response observatory; natural disasters; oceanographic regions; oceanography; sub sea component; Aquaculture; Biochemistry; Chemistry; Disaster management; Europe; Geophysics; Monitoring; Observatories; Sampling methods; Sea floor;
Conference_Titel :
OCEANS '04. MTTS/IEEE TECHNO-OCEAN '04
Conference_Location :
Kobe
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8669-8
DOI :
10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1406479
