Okeanos Explorer (EX1702): American Samoa Expedition: Suesuega o le Moana o Amerika Samoa (ROV/Mapping)
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 |
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21 |
mapsOE.htm |
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/oer-digital-atlas/mapsOE.htm |
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0 |
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http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/ |
Tags
- seafloor mapping
- davisville rhode island
- tropical northwest pacific
- telepresence
- biodiversity
- trenches
- faults
- biogeographic patterns campaign to address pacific monument science
- deep-sea corals
- sampling operations
- and ocean needs capstone central pacific seamounts deep sea coral and sponge communities deep sea mi
- international waters
- expedition exploration explorer mapping survey marine education multibeam multibeam backscatter mult
- american samoa apia east bank malulu seamount national marine sanctuary of american samoa pago pago
- seamounts
- habitat characterization
- submersibles
- technology
- marine protected areas