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Seminar: Scientific Monitoring And Reliable Telecommunications (SMART) Cable Systems for Climate Monitoring and Disaster Mitigation

26 September 2018 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Map of deep ocean SMART cables

Dr. Bruce M. Howe
Chair, ITU/WMO/IOC JTF SMART Cables
Research Professor, Ocean and Resources Engineering, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

The deep ocean is key to understanding environmental and societal threats, from climate and ocean warming and sea level rise, to tsunamis and earthquakes. The deep ocean, however, is difficult and costly to monitor, and we lack fundamental data needed to adequately model, understand, and address these threats.

One solution is to integrate sensors into future undersea telecommunications cable systems. This is the mission of the SMART cables initiative (Science Monitoring And Reliable Telecommunications) and its Joint Task Force (JTF) sponsored by three UN agencies. SMART sensors would “piggyback” on the power and communications infrastructure of a million kilometers of undersea fiber optic cable and thousands of repeaters, for global coverage at modest incremental cost. Initial sensors would measure temperature, pressure, and acceleration. The resulting data would address two critical scientific and societal issues: a) the long-term need for sustained climate-quality data from the under-sampled deep oceans, and b) the near-term need for improvements to global tsunami and seismic warning networks.

The initiative status and progress to date is described, including possible implementation in Pacific Island systems.

See Joint Task Force (JTF), ITU/WMO/IOC SMART Cables for Observing the Ocean.

Seminar: Scientific Monitoring And Reliable Telecommunications (SMART) Cable Systems for Climate Monitoring and Disaster Mitigation

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26 September 2018
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3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
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Watanabe 112
2505 Correa Rd
Honolulu, HI 96822 United States
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