SMART Cables Observing the Oceans and Earth

• Published in: Marine Technology Society Journal
• Main Authors: Rowe, Charlotte, Howe, Bruce M., Fouch, Matthew, Angove, Michael, Aucan, Jerome, Barnes, Christopher R, Bayliff, Nigel, Becker, Nathan C, Carrilho, Fernando, Fry, Bill, Janiszewski, Helen, Jamelot, Anthony, Kong, Laura, Lenz, Stephen, Luther, Douglas, Marinaro, Giuditta, Matias, Luis, Salaree, Amir, Sakya, Andi Eka, Thiele, Torsten, Tilmann, Frederik, von Hildebrandt-Andrade, Christa, Wallace, Laura, Weinstein, Stuart, Wilcock, William, Barros, Jose
• Other Authors: #PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE#, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione Roma2, Roma, Italia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Ingenta 2022
• Subjects: SMART sensors; earthquake early warning; seafloor sensing; telecommunication cables; tsunami detection; SMART cables; New Zealand; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2122/15781; https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mts/mtsj/2022/00000056/00000005/art00005; https://doi.org/10.4031/MTSJ.56.5.3

The Joint Task Force, Science Monitoring And Reliable Telecommunications (SMART) Subsea Cables is working to integrate environmental sensors (temperature, pressure, seismic acceleration) into submarine telecommunications cables. This will support climate and ocean observation, sea-level monitoring, observations of Earth structure, tsunami and earthquake early warning, and disaster risk reduction. Recent advances include regional SMART pilot systems that are the initial steps to trans-ocean and global implementation. Building on the OceanObs'19conference and community white paper (https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00424), this paper presents an overview of the initiative and a description of ongoing projects including: InSea wet demonstration project off Sicily; Vanuatu and New Caledonia; Indonesia; CAM-2 ring system connecting the Portuguese mainland, Azores, and Madeira; New Zealand; and Antarctica. In addition to the diverse scientific and societal benefits, the telecommunications industry's mission of societal connectivity will also benefit because environmental awareness improves both individual cable system integrity and the resilience of the overall global communications network. Published 13-25 3A. Geofisica marina e osservazioni multiparametriche a fondo mare JCR Journal