In many areas of Earth science, including climate change research and operational
oceanography, there is a need for near real-time integration of data from heterogeneous and …

Much of the cost and effort of new ocean observatories will be in the infrastructure that
directly supports sensors, such as moorings and mobile platforms, which in turn connect to …

Effective ocean and coastal data management are needed to manage marine ecosystem
health. Past ocean and coastal data management systems were often very specific to a …

Recent progress in underwater robotics and acoustic communication has led to the
development of a new paradigm in ocean science and technology, the Autonomous Ocean …

An infrastructure for global, regional, and coastal sub-sea observatories is being planned to
support individual and networked sensors. The main emphasis has been to provide basic …

Observations are often sparse, difficult or expensive to acquire, and may not even be
available to the sea-going scientist until they have physically reached their study site by …

Oceanography is evolving from a shipbased expeditionary science to a distributed,
observatory‐based approach in which scientists continuously interact with instruments in the …

Seaweb networks use digital signal processor (DSP)-based telesonar underwater acoustic
modems to interconnect fixed and mobile nodes. Backbone nodes are autonomous …

The study of global phenomena requires the combination of a considerable amount of data
coming from different sources, acquired by different observation platforms and managed by …

The Oceans of Tomorrow (OoT) projects, funded by the European Commission's FP7
program, are developing a new generation of sensors supporting physical, biogeochemical …