Cabled Ocean Observatories Overview

Cabled Ocean Observatory - Concept Diagram

L-3 MariPro is a leading supplier of cabled ocean observatory infrastructure for marine science applications.  We have adopted our nearly five decades of experience providing cabled sensor network solutions for naval, surveillance and monitoring applications to the evolving ocean observatory market.  To date we have been involved with solutions for the MARS, NEPTUNE Canada and RSN projects.

Cabled ocean observatories are a vast network of ocean observing sensors and mobile robots interconnected by submarine fiber optic cable. The cabled network infrastructure delivers unprecedented levels of power, communications bandwidth and precision timing to the instrumentation that can be remotely accessed and routinely interacted with from a remote network operation center or connected research campus. 

The cabled network infrastructure facilitates near real-time continuous data flow from these subsea sensors to shore.  The immense data flow will be integrated by a shore based sophisticated computing network and will be available via the Internet in near real time to researchers, public policy makers, and educational and public engagement programs. This transformative infrastructure will provide new tools for discovery-oriented researchers to better study and understand complex ocean processes.

With 70% of the planet covered by the oceans, understanding its processes and dynamic behavior will help marine scientists to better understand how it influences climate variability, major fish stocks, ocean circulation, undersea earthquakes, tsunamis, harmful algal blooms, ocean acidification as well as ocean impacts on land-based ecosystems. 

If you are in need of a cabled ocean observatory solution, please contact us for additional information.