{"id":846,"date":"2010-09-06T03:44:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T07:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mseas.net16.net\/?p=846"},"modified":"2021-07-30T16:40:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T20:40:15","slug":"automated-sensor-networks-to-advance-ocean-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/?p=846","title":{"rendered":"Automated Sensor Networks to Advance Ocean Science"},"content":{"rendered":"Oceanography is evolving from a ship-based\r\nexpeditionary science to a distributed,\r\nobservatory- based approach in which\r\nscientists continuously interact with instruments\r\nin the field. These new capabilities\r\nwill facilitate the collection of long- term\r\ntime series while also providing an interactive\r\ncapability to conduct experiments using\r\ndata streaming in real time.\r\nThe U.S. National Science Foundation has\r\nfunded the Ocean Observatories Initiative\r\n(OOI), which over the next 5 years will deploy\r\ninfrastructure to expand scientists&#8217; ability to\r\nremotely study the ocean. The OOI is deploying\r\ninfrastructure that spans global, regional,\r\nand coastal scales. A global component will\r\naddress planetary- scale problems using a new\r\nnetwork of moored buoys linked to shore via\r\nsatellite telecommunications. A regional cabled\r\nobservatory will &#8220;wire&#8221; a single region in the\r\nnortheastern Pacific Ocean with a high-speed\r\noptical and power grid. The coastal component\r\nwill expand existing coastal observing assets to\r\nstudy the importance of high-frequency forcing\r\non the coastal environment.\r\nThese components will be linked by a\r\nrobust cyberinfrastructure (CI) that will integrate\r\nmarine observatories into a coherent\r\nsystem of systems. This CI infrastructure\r\nwill also provide a Web- based social\r\nnetwork enabled by real- time visualization\r\nand access to numerical model information,\r\nto provide the foundation for adaptive\r\nsampling science. Thus, oceanographers\r\nwill have access to automated machine-to-machine\r\nsensor networks that can be scalable\r\nto increase in size and incorporate new\r\ntechnology for decades to come. A case\r\nstudy of this CI in action shows how a community\r\nof ocean scientists and engineers\r\nlocated throughout the United States at\r\n12 different institutions used the automated\r\nocean observatory to address daily adaptive\r\nscience priorities in real time.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oceanography is evolving from a ship-based expeditionary science to a distributed, observatory- based approach in which scientists continuously interact with instruments in the field. These new capabilities will facilitate the collection of long- term time series while also providing an interactive capability to conduct experiments using data streaming in real time. The U.S. National Science [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,183,37,29,40,5,185,57,194,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-numerical-ocean-modeling","category-science-of-autonomy","category-applications-to-ocean-dynamics","category-computer-science","category-acoustical-physical-interactions","category-publications","category-adaptive-sampling","category-papers-in-refereed-journals-acoustical-physical-interactions","category-papers-in-refereed-journals-adaptive-sampling","category-papers-in-refereed-journals-computer-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5668,"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/5668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}