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

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference Proceedings, 2002. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7231-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2002.1036859

Filename

1036859