Investigating the mediterranean by seafloor observations: The eastern branch of the EMSO Ligurian Sea node

Locritani, M. ... et. al.-- OCEANS 2015, 18-21 May 2015, Genova.-- © 2015 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.The overall objective of this proposal is to build an advanced and original prototype specifically devoted to seafloor and water-column monitoring as starting Italian contribution to the further development of the EMSO Ligurian Sea node. In detail the aim of the observatory is to ensure real-time continuous acquisition of geophysical, oceanographic and biological data by a cable system from a marine depth of about 500 m to the shore stationPeer Reviewe