Conveners
SENSEational Networking
- Chris Atherton (GÉANT)
Description
Traditionally our community has utilised submarine cables for telecommunications. However, new techniques, technologies and methods are being employed which allow existing and new submarine fibre optic telecoms cables to be used as research instruments in their own right, all while co-existing with telecoms traffic. This session will explore the technology and the research associated with this new field of science, followed by a dialogue with a new research institute which is being created in Albania. What is needed to make an infrastructure like this work? What types of research can be performed with this data? All these questions and more will be explored in the SENSEational Networking session.
In last decades the massive use of telecommunications has driven the need to lay millions of kilometers of optical fiber cables across the entire planet, particularly our oceans. Recent developments in optical fiber sensing have revealed the possibility to transform all these cables into powerful geophysical sensing arrays, capable of measuring in a position-resolved way variables such as...
The Seismology Department is a basic research unit at the Institute of Geosciences (IGEO),part of Polytechnic University of Tirana (UPT), Albania, which has the task: to conduct scientific and applied studies in the field of seismology; to administer the Albanian Seismological Network (ASN), as the only national infrastructure for earthquake monitoringand development of scientific research in...
Recent years have shown a rapid development utilizing acousting sensing on already deployed fiber optic cables. This presentation will go through experiments and results obtained so far in the far north arctic, showing a variety of use cases including whale and wessel tracking, earthquake and distant storms registration etc. We will also take a brief look into new sensing techniques and and...