SMART Subsea Cables for Observing the Earth and Ocean, Mitigating Environmental Hazards, and Supporting the Blue Economy
The Joint Task Force, Science Monitoring And Reliable Telecommunications (JTF SMART) Subsea Cables, is working to integrate environmental sensors for ocean bottom temperature, pressure, and seismic acceleration into submarine telecommunications cables. The purpose of SMART Cables is to support clima...
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| author | Bruce M. Howe Michael Angove Jérome Aucan Christopher R. Barnes José S. Barros Nigel Bayliff Nathan C. Becker Fernando Carrilho Matthew J. Fouch Bill Fry Anthony Jamelot Helen Janiszewski Laura S. L. Kong Stephen Lentz Douglas S. Luther Giuditta Marinaro Luís Manuel Matias Charlotte A. Rowe Andi E. Sakya Andi E. Sakya Amir Salaree Torsten Thiele Frederik J. Tilmann Christa von Hillebrandt-Andrade Laura Wallace Laura Wallace Stuart Weinstein William Wilcock |
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| description | The Joint Task Force, Science Monitoring And Reliable Telecommunications (JTF SMART) Subsea Cables, is working to integrate environmental sensors for ocean bottom temperature, pressure, and seismic acceleration into submarine telecommunications cables. The purpose of SMART Cables is to support climate and ocean observation, sea level monitoring, observations of Earth structure, and tsunami and earthquake early warning and disaster risk reduction, including hazard quantification. Recent advances include regional SMART pilot systems that are the first steps to trans-ocean and global implementation. Examples of pilots include: InSEA wet demonstration project off Sicily at the European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory Western Ionian Facility; New Caledonia and Vanuatu; French Polynesia Natitua South system connecting Tahiti to Tubaui to the south; Indonesia starting with short pilot systems working toward systems for the Sumatra-Java megathrust zone; and the CAM-2 ring system connecting Lisbon, Azores, and Madeira. This paper describes observing system simulations for these and other regions. Funding reflects a blend of government, development bank, philanthropic foundation, and commercial contributions. In addition to notable scientific and societal benefits, the telecommunications enterprise’s mission of global connectivity will benefit directly, as environmental awareness improves both the integrity of individual cable systems as well as the resilience of the overall global communications network. SMART cables support the outcomes of a predicted, safe, and transparent ocean as envisioned by the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development and the Blue Economy. As a continuation of the OceanObs’19 conference and community white paper (Howe et al., 2019, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00424), an overview of the SMART programme and a description of the status of ongoing projects are given. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8007bbee60e945bdacaa63295e67b4b42022-12-22T04:17:50ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Earth Science2296-64632022-02-01910.3389/feart.2021.775544775544SMART Subsea Cables for Observing the Earth and Ocean, Mitigating Environmental Hazards, and Supporting the Blue EconomyBruce M. Howe0Michael Angove1Jérome Aucan2Christopher R. Barnes3José S. Barros4Nigel Bayliff5Nathan C. Becker6Fernando Carrilho7Matthew J. Fouch8Bill Fry9Anthony Jamelot10Helen Janiszewski11Laura S. L. Kong12Stephen Lentz13Douglas S. Luther14Giuditta Marinaro15Luís Manuel Matias16Charlotte A. Rowe17Andi E. Sakya18Andi E. Sakya19Amir Salaree20Torsten Thiele21Frederik J. Tilmann22Christa von Hillebrandt-Andrade23Laura Wallace24Laura Wallace25Stuart Weinstein26William Wilcock27Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, United StatesNOAA National Weather Service Tsunami Program, Silver Spring, MD, United StatesPacific Community Centre for Ocean Sciences, Nouméa, New CaledoniaUniversity of Victoria, Victoria, BC, CanadaAutoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM), Lisbon, PortugalAqua Comms, Dublin, IrelandNOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Honolulu, HI, United StatesInstituto Português Do Mar e da Atmosfera, Lisbon, PortugalSubsea Data Systems, Inc., Washington, DC, United States0GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand1Laboratoire de Géophysique de Pamatai, CEA, Papeete, French-Polynesia2Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, United States3UNESCO IOC—NOAA International Tsunami Information Center, Honolulu, HI, United States4Ocean Specialists, Inc., McLean, VA, United States5Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, United States6Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Roma, Italy7Instituto Dom Luiz, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal8Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Science, Los Alamos, NM, United States9National Agency for Research and Innovation (BRIN), Jakarta, Indonesia0Indonesia Institute of Technology (ITI), Tangerang, Indonesia1Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States2Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, Germany3GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany4UNESCO IOC—NOAA International Tsunami Information Center, Caribbean Office, Mayagüez, PR, United States0GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand5Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United StatesNOAA Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Honolulu, HI, United States6School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United StatesThe Joint Task Force, Science Monitoring And Reliable Telecommunications (JTF SMART) Subsea Cables, is working to integrate environmental sensors for ocean bottom temperature, pressure, and seismic acceleration into submarine telecommunications cables. The purpose of SMART Cables is to support climate and ocean observation, sea level monitoring, observations of Earth structure, and tsunami and earthquake early warning and disaster risk reduction, including hazard quantification. Recent advances include regional SMART pilot systems that are the first steps to trans-ocean and global implementation. Examples of pilots include: InSEA wet demonstration project off Sicily at the European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory Western Ionian Facility; New Caledonia and Vanuatu; French Polynesia Natitua South system connecting Tahiti to Tubaui to the south; Indonesia starting with short pilot systems working toward systems for the Sumatra-Java megathrust zone; and the CAM-2 ring system connecting Lisbon, Azores, and Madeira. This paper describes observing system simulations for these and other regions. Funding reflects a blend of government, development bank, philanthropic foundation, and commercial contributions. In addition to notable scientific and societal benefits, the telecommunications enterprise’s mission of global connectivity will benefit directly, as environmental awareness improves both the integrity of individual cable systems as well as the resilience of the overall global communications network. SMART cables support the outcomes of a predicted, safe, and transparent ocean as envisioned by the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development and the Blue Economy. As a continuation of the OceanObs’19 conference and community white paper (Howe et al., 2019, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00424), an overview of the SMART programme and a description of the status of ongoing projects are given.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2021.775544/fullSMART subsea cablesocean observingglobal geophysicsseismologyearthquake and tsunami early warningenvironmental disaster risk reduction |
| spellingShingle | Bruce M. Howe Michael Angove Jérome Aucan Christopher R. Barnes José S. Barros Nigel Bayliff Nathan C. Becker Fernando Carrilho Matthew J. Fouch Bill Fry Anthony Jamelot Helen Janiszewski Laura S. L. Kong Stephen Lentz Douglas S. Luther Giuditta Marinaro Luís Manuel Matias Charlotte A. Rowe Andi E. Sakya Andi E. Sakya Amir Salaree Torsten Thiele Frederik J. Tilmann Christa von Hillebrandt-Andrade Laura Wallace Laura Wallace Stuart Weinstein William Wilcock SMART Subsea Cables for Observing the Earth and Ocean, Mitigating Environmental Hazards, and Supporting the Blue Economy Frontiers in Earth Science SMART subsea cables ocean observing global geophysics seismology earthquake and tsunami early warning environmental disaster risk reduction |
| title | SMART Subsea Cables for Observing the Earth and Ocean, Mitigating Environmental Hazards, and Supporting the Blue Economy |
| title_full | SMART Subsea Cables for Observing the Earth and Ocean, Mitigating Environmental Hazards, and Supporting the Blue Economy |
| title_fullStr | SMART Subsea Cables for Observing the Earth and Ocean, Mitigating Environmental Hazards, and Supporting the Blue Economy |
| title_full_unstemmed | SMART Subsea Cables for Observing the Earth and Ocean, Mitigating Environmental Hazards, and Supporting the Blue Economy |
| title_short | SMART Subsea Cables for Observing the Earth and Ocean, Mitigating Environmental Hazards, and Supporting the Blue Economy |
| title_sort | smart subsea cables for observing the earth and ocean mitigating environmental hazards and supporting the blue economy |
| topic | SMART subsea cables ocean observing global geophysics seismology earthquake and tsunami early warning environmental disaster risk reduction |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2021.775544/full |
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