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I – Manage data from the above. (Specific)
J – Build knowledge from the above and train staff. (Specific)
K – Ensure economical operation. (Shared/telescope)
The components of the system considered as a subsea observatory are:
0 – Management of the infrastructure (Specific)
1- Dissemination and user interfaces (Specific)
2- Data bases (Specific)
3 - Technical supervision infrastructure (Specific)
4 - Onshore network (Specific)
5 - Land Base termination of sea infrastructure (telescope)
6 - Land sea communication segment (Shared/telescope)
7 - Node from branching unit to Main junction box (Shared/telescope)
8 - Branch extension of the network - uplink (Specific)
9 – Secondary junction box (Specific)
10 - Link to instruments - downlink (Specific)
11 - Individual instrument (Specific)
Data management issues
The dataflow from the Earth-sea science sensing to the user and the storage must:
- allow versatility , easy update, long term preservation and publication
- be open to all disciplines and therefore able to enrich data archive centres of
these disciplines,
- allow sensor registry facilities according to ESONET requirements
- provide data to operational services, compatible with GMES and integrated
with GEOSS related earth observation systems,
- comply with Inspire directives and ease access to environment data,
- provide real time data (according for instance to Sensor Observation Service)
and interaction with instruments
- provide alarm and real time warning for geohazard
- ensure a safety storage at the Land Base termination level
- disseminate data to the ESONET/EMSO community of scientists thanks to
data integration and portal tools which ensure harmonisation of collected data
and allow access of data in a common way.
The group could not establish a precise drawing of the dataflow on October 9 th 2009, as some
tasks in ESONET are not finished yet (ESONET SWE services complementary to Eurosites
and seaDataNet projects). Due to the importance at European level of the neutrino cabled
observatories in the plans of future subsea Earth-Sea science observatories, such dataflow
explanations are needed.
Earth-Sea science Underwater Components.
The ESONET group working on smart sensors (participating to the same Best Practices
Workshop 2 in Brest as Panel 3-2 1 ), proposes an adapted Secondary Junction box
specification. It takes into account the advances of Neptune Canada design, additional
1 ESONET participants: Joaquim Del Rio Fernandez UPC and colleagues, Eric Delory dBscale, Christoph
Waldman Marum, Yves Auffret IFREMER and colleagues, Klaus Schleisieck SEND Offshore invited
participants: Tom O’Reilly from MBARI USA, Oussama Kassem Zein ENSIETA and colleagues
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