Novel Longer-Term Ocean Bottom Station Concepts Enabled by Advancements in Low Power Equipment
Description:
With over 70% of the earth’s surface covered in ocean, the ability of land-only stations and networks to understand our planet is limited. To increase our global coverage, there is a continued need for higher quality and longer term seismic stations to augment existing networks. Meeting this need has traditionally been limited by the costs and complexities of the stations themselves and the significant operational costs of deploying and recovering systems.
Recent advances in high-performance, low Size Weight and Power (SWaP) instrumentation allows an examination of new approaches to increase the performance, density and duration of ocean bottom seismometer systems. The combination of higher value and lower footprint stations allows for new and previously infeasible approaches to be within reach.
Existing and emerging technologies in instrumentation, power generation, periodic telemetry and station design are examined to develop opportunities for advancement of worldwide coverage of seismic data.