Sentences with phrase «ocean bottom sensors»
Traditional seismometers can misclassify tilting as translational motion — a problem especially acute for ocean bottom sensors that sit on soft muds, Evans says.
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Optical sensors installed on ships, for instance, can determine ocean water color that reflects the activity of micro-algae at the bottom of the food chain and, when examined alongside satellite color observations, can support extrapolations about what's happening in a given area of ocean.
Another boost, says Garnero, could come from ocean - bottom earthquake sensors.
The sensors allow researchers to create detailed images of the bedrock and structures under the ocean's bottom.
Another challenge is that we'll need thousands of sensors, in every coastal environment and at the bottom of the ocean.
R / S Peter Freuchen in front of 10» hole (bottom right) for deployment of a profiling ocean sensor.