OBSEA - Expandable Seafloor Observatory
OBSEA is an underwater cabled observatory connected with 4 km of cable to the coast of Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona, Spain) and placed at a depth of 20m in a fishing protected area. Operations are done by scuba divers and small boats. A surface buoy located at 40m from the underwater unit is an extension of OBSEA working as surface platform for measuring oceanographic and environmental parameters. A Shore Station provides power (3.6kW) to feed all the devices and the fiber optic link (1Gbps) to establish communications. At the same time from land we manage alarms and data storage. With a length of 1000 meters the terrestrial cable connects the Ground Station to the Beach Manhole where the submarine cable begins its route to the node location at 4 km from the coast and 20 m depth. OBSEA has nowadays two junction boxes with a total of 16 underwater webmate connectors.
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Identification info
- Date (Publication)
- 2018-06-04
- Citation identifier
- OBSEA - Expandable Seafloor Observatory
- Point of contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address ORCID Role UPC
Joaquin del Rio
Point of contact UPC
Marc Nogueras
Point of contact
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Topic category
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- Oceans
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- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Oceanographic geographical features
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- Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P02)
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Electrical conductivity of the water column
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Sound velocity and travel time in the water column
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Wind strength and direction
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Horizontal velocity of the water column (currents)
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Resource constraints
- Use limitation
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Creative Commons license to apply : Attribution (BY) : http://creativecommons.org/licenses/?lang=en
- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Use constraints
- Copyright
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
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www.obsea.es
Resource lineage
- Lineage
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not available
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Spatial representation info
- Geometric object type
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- c2b15759-ce84-4e3a-8b6a-183e1d7b2351
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address ORCID Role MARIS
Fred Kaan
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Series
- Metadata linkage
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https://sextant.ifremer.fr/geonetwork/srv/api/records/c2b15759-ce84-4e3a-8b6a-183e1d7b2351
- Date info (Creation)
- 2018-06-04T08:53:14Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-05-16T00:01:26.343564Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-3 - SEXTANT
- Edition
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1.0
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