The VENUS (Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea) project is a cabled sea floor observatory, operated by the University of Victoria consisting of fibre optic cables connecting oceanographic instruments on the sea floor of the Pacific Ocean off the coast British Columbia to a dedicated shore-station. Data from the sub-sea instruments is relayed to the University of Victoria in real time. The data, including images and audio, is processed and made available to researchers and the public through the VENUS website.
MARS, a similar MBARI cabled-based oceanography observatory
SATURN, Science and Technology University Research Network, a coastal margin, or river-to-ocean, testbed observatory for the United States Pacific Northwest, a project of the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center for Coastal Margin Observation and Prediction.
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