Title :
NEPTUNE: An under-sea plate scale observatory
Author :
Beauchamp, Patricia ; Heath, G. Ross ; Maffei, Andrew ; Chave, Alan ; Howe, Bruce ; Wilcock, William ; Delaney, John ; Kirkham, Harold
Author_Institution :
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, 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 :
arrays; distributed sensors; oceanographic equipment; oceanographic techniques; optical fibre communication; tectonics; Internet communications link; Juan de Fuca tectonic plate; NEPTUNE infrastructure; NEPTUNE project; fiber-optic/power cable; junction boxes; linked array; long-term studies; northeast Pacific Ocean; plate-scale studies; real-time studies; seafloor; sensor networks; under-sea plate scale observatory; undersea observatories; Geoscience; Instruments; Laboratories; Observatories; Oceans; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber sensors; Optical sensors; Propulsion; Sensor arrays;
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace Conference Proceedings, 2002. IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7231-X
DOI :
10.1109/AERO.2002.1036859
