CATANIA (ITALPRESS) – The installation of a new submarine electro-optic cable was successfully completed off the coast of Catania, created by the National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology (Ingv) thanks to the financing of the PNRR ITINERIS project, dedicated to the strengthening and integration of Italian research infrastructures in European networks of excellence. The intervention, read in a note, represents an important advance in the ability to observe and monitor the deep sea in the Mediterranean.
The new cable, about 35 kilometers long, connects the ground station located in the port of Catania to Western Ionian Sea (WIS), located about 2000 meters deep in the Western Ionian Sea. The WIS site is divided into several interconnected observatory systems and is a European level research infrastructure capable of carrying out multiparametric and real-time monitoring of the deep marine environment. The infrastructure is managed jointly by Ingv and Infn (National Institute of Nuclear Physics) and is part of the European consortium EMSO ERIC (European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory European Research Infrastructure Consortium). Equipped with 24 optical fibres, the new system – produced for Ingv by a partnership consisting of Elettra Tlc and MacArtney Italy – allows the real-time transmission of large amounts of data from observers installed on the seabed while guaranteeing power supply. Submarine cable termination was designed to accommodate new observation systems, while a dedicated data management and distribution system will allow real-time access to the entire infrastructure.
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