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Authors: | Favali, P.* Azzarone, A.* Badiali, L.* Beranzoli, L.* Cianchini, G.* Qamili, E.* De Caro, M.G.* De Santis, A.* Doumaz, F.* Embriaco, D.* Falcone, G.* Giovanetti, G.* Lo Bue, N.* Marinaro, G.* Monna, S.* Montuori, C.* Sgroi, T.* Vinci, S.* NEMO Collaboration, NEMO Collaboration* Chierici, F.* Pignagnoli, L.* Zitellini, N.* Bruni, F.* Gasparoni, F.* |
Title: | NEMO-SN1 (Western Ionian Sea, off Eastern Sicily): Example of architecture of a cabled observatory | Issue Date: | 5-Apr-2011 | Publisher: | IEEE | DOI: | 10.1109/UT.2011.5774157 | Keywords: | NEMO-SN1 cabled observatory Geo-hazards Bio-acoustics High-energy astrophysics EMSO KM3NeT |
Subject Classification: | 03. Hydrosphere::03.01. General::03.01.04. Ocean data assimilation and reanalysis 03. Hydrosphere::03.01. General::03.01.08. Instruments and techniques 03. Hydrosphere::03.02. Hydrology::03.02.04. Measurements and monitoring 03. Hydrosphere::03.02. Hydrology::03.02.07. Instruments and techniques |
Abstract: | NEMO-SN1, located in the central Mediterranean Sea, Western Ionian Sea, off Eastern Sicily Island (Southern Italy) at 2100 m water depth, 25 km from the harbour of the city of Catania, is a prototype of a cabled deep-sea multiparameter observatory and the first operating with real-time data transmission in Europe since 2005. NEMO-SN1 is also the first-established node of EMSO (European Multidisciplinary Seafloor Observatory, http://emso-eu.org), one of the incoming European large-scale research infrastructure included since 2006 in the Roadmap of the ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures, http://cordis.europa.eu/esfri/roadmap.htm), which will specifically address long-term monitoring of environmental processes related to Marine Ecosystems, Climate Change and Geo-hazards. NEMO-SN1 has been deployed and developed over the last decade thanks to Italian resources and to the EC project ESONET-NoE (European Seas Observatory NETwork - Network of Excellence, 2007-2011) that funded the LIDO-DM (Listening to the Deep Ocean - Demonstration Mission) and a technological interoperability test (http://www.esonet-emso.org/esonet-noe/). NEMO-SN1 is performing geophysical and environmental long-term monitoring by acquiring seismological, geomagnetic, gravimetric, accelerometric, physico-oceanographic, hydro-acoustic, bioacoustic measurements specifically related to earthquakes and tsunamis generation and ambient noise characterisation in term of marine mammal sounds, environmental and anthropogenic sources. A further main feature of NEMO-SN1 is to be an important test-site for the construction of KM3NeT (Kilometre-Cube Underwater Neutrino Telescope, http://www.km3net.org/), another large-scale research infrastructure included in the ESFRI Roadmap constituted by a large volume neutrino telescope. The description of the observatory and the most recent data acquired will be presented and framed in the general objectives of EMSO. |
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