VENUS Versatile Eco-monitoring Network by
Undersea-cable System) Project
Supported by STA, Japan
IEEE OES paper written by J. Kasahara et
al., 2000.
Kasahara, J., K.Kawaguchi, R. Iwase, Y. Shirasaki, J. Kojima ande T. Nakatsuka, Installation of the multi-disciplinary VENUS observatory at the Ryukyu Trench using Guam-Okinawa geophysical submarine cable (GOGC: former TPC-2 cable), JAMSTEC Deep Sea Research, 18, 193-207, 2001.
The first VENUS
system was deployed on the slope of the Ryukyu Trench at 2,200m deep in 1999.
Left: Junction box
at 2,200 m deep off Okinawa, Japan. Right: OBBS with cable at 2,20m deep at the
VENUS site.
Waveforms
obtained by OBSS(Ocean Bottom Broadband Seismometer) in the VENUS project.
The earthquake
occurred on September 29, 1999.
Report is
available soon.
International
Workshop on Scientific Submarine Cable Use
Dates: Feb.
25-28, 1997
Place: Okinawa
Convention Center, Okinawa, Japan
Scientific
Topics: Submarine cable Technology, ROV, AUV, Acoustic Modem, etc.
Nationalities:
Japan, US, Russia, China, Taiwan, Korea, France, Portugal, Canada
Proceedings is
available:
Proceedings of
International Workshop on Scientific Use of Submarine Cables, Okinawa, Japan,
1997.
Order to Junzo
Kasahara, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo Kasa2@eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Submarine Cable Network
in the world
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