White Paper. Subsea telecoms cables: A driver for scientific research
Atherton, Chris; Pals, Auke; Jestin, Camille; Belal, Mohammad 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5175-3158; Strollo, Angello; Tilmann, Frederik.
2022
White Paper. Subsea telecoms cables: A driver for scientific research.
Zenodo, 14pp.
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Two thirds of the surface of our planet are covered by water and are still poorly instrumented, which has prevented the earth science community from addressing numerous key scientific questions. The potential to leverage the existing fiber optic seafloor telecom cables that criss-cross the oceans, by using them as dense arrays of seismo-acoustic sensors, remains to be evaluated. Here, we report Distributed Acoustic Sensing measurements on a 41.5 km-long telecom cable that is deployed offshore Toulon, France. Our observations demonstrate the capability to monitor with unprecedented details the ocean-solid earth interactions from the coast to the abyssal plain, in addition to regional seismicity (e.g., a magnitude 1.9 micro-earthquake located 100km away) with signal characteristics comparable to those of a coastal seismic station.
| Item Type: | Publication - Report (Other) |
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| Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | 10.5281/zenodo.7454756 |
| Additional Keywords: | SMART cables, DAS, SOP, Distributed Acoustic Sensors, State of Polarisation |
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| Date made live: | 04 Mar 2025 12:34 +0 (UTC) |
| URI: | https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/539010 |
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