SMART Cables for Observing the Global Ocean: Science and Implementation.

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2019Author
Howe, Bruce M.
Arbic, Brian K.
Aucan, Jérome
Barnes, Christopher R.
Bayliff, Nigel
Becker, Nathan
Butler, Rhett
Doyle, Laurie
Elipot, Shane
Johnson, Gregory C.
Landerer, Felix
Lentz, Stephen
Luther, Douglas S.
Müller, Malte
Mariano, John
Panayotou, Kate
Rowe, Charlotte
Ota, Hiroshi
Song, Y. Tony
Thomas, Maik
Thomas, Preston N.
Thompson, Philip
Tilmann, Frederik
Weber, Tobias
Weinstein, Stuart
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The ocean is key to understanding societal threats including climate change, sea
level rise, ocean warming, tsunamis, and earthquakes. Because the ocean is difficult
and costly to monitor, we lack fundamental data needed to adequately model,
understand, and address these threats. One solution is to integrate sensors into
future undersea telecommunications cables. This is the mission of the SMART subsea
cables initiative (Science Monitoring And Reliable Telecommunications). SMART sensors
would “piggyback” on the power and communications infrastructure of a million
kilometers of undersea fiber optic cable and thousands of repeaters, creating the
potential for seafloor-based global ocean observing at a modest incremental cost.
Initial sensors would measure temperature, pressure, and seismic acceleration. The
resulting data would address two critical scientific and societal issues: the longterm
need for sustained climate-quality data from the under-sampled ocean (e.g.,
deep oce.....
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Frontiers in Marine ScienceVolume
6Issue
Article 424Page Range
27pp.Document Language
enSustainable Development Goals (SDG)
14Maturity Level
TRL 2 Technology concept and/or application formulatedBest Practice Type
Manual (incl. handbook, guide, cookbook etc)DOI Original
10.3389/fmars.2019.00424Citation
Howe, B.M., et al (2019) SMART Cables for Observing the Global Ocean: Science and Implementation. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6:424, 27pp. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00424Collections
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