Power systems for ocean regional cabled observatories

Kojima, Junichi; Asakawa, Kenichi; Howe, Bruce M.; Kirkham, Harold

Power systems for ocean regional cabled observatories

Kojima, Junichi; Asakawa, Kenichi; Howe, Bruce M.; Kirkham, Harold

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2014/39187

Date: 2004-11-07

Keywords: underwater power; ocean observatory; cabled subsea observatory

Publisher: Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2004.

Citation: Oceans '04 / Techno Ocean '04, Kobe, Japan, November 07-12, 2004.

Abstract:

Development of power systems is the most challenging technical issue in the design of ocean regional cabled observatories. ARENA and NEPTUNE are two ocean regional cabled observatory networks with aims that are at least broadly similar. Yet the two designs are quite different in detail. This paper outlines the both systems and explores the reasons for the divergence of design, and shows that it arose because of differences in the priority of requirements.

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