Hi guys! ☺ Do you have an idea,or know some ocean observatory?If none,then keep on touch with this article it will tell you how advance technology help to make a deep sea observatory possible and why we need to study even the deepest part of the earth.Have fun and learn.
What we do?
NEPTUNE Canada ocean network is part of the Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) Observatory. Our network extends the Internet from the rocky coast to the deep abyss. We gather live data and video from instruments on the seafloor, making them freely available to the world, 24/7.
Where we are?
Our network is located in the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
NEPTUNE Canada is managed by Ocean Networks Canada for a consortium led by the University of Victoria. Along with its coastal sister, VENUS, it pioneers a new generation of ocean observation systems that, using power and the Internet, provides continuous, long-term monitoring of ocean processes and events, as they happen.
Let take a glance to the history of this dream that now came true,and what does Canada has ?and how they able to come up with this great project,making such a big window in bottom of the sea for all the people , is one of a kind.
Before Scientists are limited in ocean research, primarily because today's underwater instruments lack power. However, they came up with a solution: the installation of an entire network of underwater cables that will be able to provide non-stop power supply to instruments.
The University of Victoria, signed a contract with Alcatel to design, manufacture and install the infrastructure for NEPTUNE Canada’s cabled ocean observatory in October 2005.
Cost: more than $100 million.
Cost: more than $100 million.
- Data will be transmitted via high-speed fibre optic communications from the seafloor to an innovative data archival system at the University of Victoria.
- This system will provide free Internet access to an immense wealth of data, both live and archived throughout the life of the observatory.
- To remain operational for a minimum period of 25 years.
- Applications:
- useful for broad studies on seismic and tsunami activity, ocean-climate interactions and their effects on fisheries, gas hydrate deposits, and seafloor ecology.
- will also promote new developments in marine underwater technology: fibre-optic communications, power systems design, data management, and sensors and robotics.
Stage I of the NEPTUNE project will lay an 800 km ring of powered fiber optic cable on the seabed over the northern part of the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate, a 200,000 sq km region in the northeast Pacific off the coasts of British Columbia, Washington and Oregon.
This tectonic plate is the smallest of the dozen major plates that make up the planet's surface and offers a full range of Earth and ocean processes for us
This tectonic plate is the smallest of the dozen major plates that make up the planet's surface and offers a full range of Earth and ocean processes for us
to observe.
This is the actual coverage of ROPOS,a robot of NEPTUNE Canada.:
It’s estimated that the NEPTUNE and VENUS archives will have accumulated several petabytes of data after only a few years of operation. One petabyte is equal to one quadrillion bytes, or roughly the equivalent of 20 million four-drawer filing cabinets full of text.
"This project will develop ways to interactively control camera and video transmissions from locations across the continent," says Bradley, who is responsible for the underwater engineering aspects of the project. "Ultimately, we’d like to move a camera around on an underwater vehicle, but for now we’re working on the interfaces for a stationary system where the camera can pan, tilt and zoom on command."
My comment:
NEPTUNE as world largest observatory,is very helpful especially to those who are really studied the ocean and its habitat.Its a first step also for the world to understand where,when and how climate change will be solve. Through this cabled network under the sea,we can easily access data and determined what is happening beyond the sea through internet which we know the easiest way to transfer information from one person to another.And we can learn also how advance technology to make this thing to real,instead of human they use robot which design for that purpose example ROPOS,because if we back in our later years in traditional observatory we need to live near from the species that we want to observe,but under the sea,or in the sea bed is an another case...and as a matter of fact we knew no one can survive to 0 oxygen environment,especially to us human.but through the help of this new advance technology we will not only sea,but also we can even hear,and seems to touch while we are just setting and faced forward to our monitor.This is not just for a scientist but even to us student, normal citizen that we must be educated about the ocean and the living things in it,and acknowledge God how magnificent he is in making such a thing like this that no one could imagine.
Prepared by : Jeffrey Sabado Mocoy
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TumugonBurahinkeep it up!
TumugonBurahinnice topic....its interesting....i hope we have this in our country...good job mocz...!
TumugonBurahinWow....talagang sa larangan ng teknolohiya ay walang pinipiling lugar...noon sa labas ng mundo ngayon pati sa kinailaliman ng tubig..cguro sa susunod sa ibang dimensyon naman....well informative and educatable.....nice jeff....keep up...
TumugonBurahinby the way jeff where do you get this information...knowing about our ocean deeply is such a good thing,,,,...how i wish i could try to manipulate the robot..its very nice....
TumugonBurahinmocs.....nice topic ...instiristing...
TumugonBurahincoy....nice iya sounds...ing-ana d na d i ka high tech ang canada karun.....bungga lage sila...bungga...
TumugonBurahinpoy....abi nakog...ano neptune na planet...observatory man d i.....pero ayuz sya now I know...taht there is thinds like that,under the sea.Pwede makipag chat kay nimo...hehheeheh
TumugonBurahinkoy...abi nakog planet jud buh...undersea man d i....hhehe pero nice sya...
TumugonBurahinnice one....I love it...
TumugonBurahinnose bleed koy...but I try to understand with all the dictionary kaayo....kaya gets ko ren...helpful sya beyond the risk and cost niya...Im sure Its more than a billion project..undersea observatory heller ..dinhi lng gani sa yuta mahal na kaayo how much more pa kaya sa ilalom sa tubig..
TumugonBurahini want to try,i think its one of a kind....
TumugonBurahingood topic because it helps us to determine what cases happen in the sea ...
TumugonBurahinnice one !
naay libre ride ana pdi manghitz? heheehe
TumugonBurahinboNGga jd xah mgtour2 ta under da sea ...heheh =>>
cge lng mer...e pa reserve tika...si sir dena naa say extra machine pud ani...
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