JeanMarc Sinquin IfremerBrest

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• Jean-Marc Sinquin Ifremer/Brest
• Colin Devey Geomar/Kiel

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• Describe the objectives of the proposed activity
  (diagrams and schematic layouts can be added in
  order to illustrate the main technical features
  of the project).
• Give a brief overview of the current
  international state-of-the-art and explain how
  the proposed JRA will represent a significant
  step forward, in particular in terms of
  developing essential technologies required to
  upgrade existing infrastructures or to move to
  the next generation of equipment,
  instrumentation, detectors, etc. Describe in what
  way the proposed activity is technologically
  innovative and not just duplicating a capability
  that already exists in Europe.
• Whenever possible, suggest appropriate ways and
  parameters to monitor the success and impact of
  the activity.

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• environment and mitigation - this could be as
  wide or as narrow as we want, on one hand seismic
  disturbance of marine mammals, but equally we
  could look at 'greening' of the OFEG fleet by
  reducing overboard discharges and emissions
• developing a common set of ROV tools for the OFEG
  deep platforms facility
• develop the next generation of embarked
  software, that could be shared within and
  outside OFEG

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• Case study embarked software next
  generation.
• Sensors complexity ?
• Data volume on disk ?
• Complexity of data logging ?
• Video formats ?
• Time on board ?
• Standardization ? (Seadatanet, )
• Use and extend the existenting network
• (NERC, Geomar, AWI, Univ. Cambridge, CSIC,
• Univ. Amsterdam, )

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• Main goals
• The European scientific community could use such
  the system to
• draw greater benefit from marine exploration,
• encourage the standardisation of processing
  methods between organisations, so that data can
  be better leveraged by existing networks, such as
  Seadatanet,
• extend marine exploration to a larger number of
  disciplines.