Description
Operations will include the use of the ship's deep water
mapping systems (Kongsberg EM302 multibeam sonar, EK60 split-beam fisheries
sonars, Knudsen 3260 chirp sub-bottom profiler sonar, and Teledyne Acoustic
Doppler Current Profilers), XBT and Underway CTD casts in support of multibeam
sonar mapping operations, OER's 6000 m two-body ROV Deep Discoverer and Seirios,
and the ship's high-bandwidth satellite connection for continuous real-time
ship-to-shore communications.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research Ocean Explorer Website | Unknown | Open resource | |
| OER Digital Atlas | HTML | mapsOE.htm | Open resource |
Tags
- american samoa apia east bank malulu seamount national marine sanctuary of american samoa pago pago
- and ocean needs capstone central pacific seamounts deep sea coral and sponge communities deep sea mi
- biodiversity
- biogeographic patterns campaign to address pacific monument science
- davisville rhode island
- deep-sea corals
- expedition exploration explorer mapping survey marine education multibeam multibeam backscatter mult
- faults
- habitat characterization
- international waters
- marine protected areas
- sampling operations
- seafloor mapping
- seamounts
- submersibles
- technology
- telepresence
- trenches
- tropical northwest pacific