What an Ocean-Earth-Atmosphere-Space observatory would look like (IMAGE)

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

What an Ocean-Earth-Atmosphere-Space observatory would look like

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he Earth-Ocean-Atmosphere-Space observatory concept. The upper-right-hand globe shows the extensive network of existing Fibre-Optic (FO) cables (yellow lines). The lower-left zoomed inset illustrates the key features of the observatory and its capabilities, including the DAS detection, tracking and identification of whales, ships, storms and earthquakes, processed in real-time, fused with other sensing sources such as satellite-derived Automated Identification System data from ships and relayed to the cloud.

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Illustration from Landrø et al. Sensing whales, storms, ships and earthquakes using an Arctic fibre optic cable. Sci Rep 12, 19226 (2022).

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