TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGE
EMSO TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP 2025-2030
To further develop the EMSO technological capacities aligned with the four driving scientific topics and connected Key scientific Questions, EMSO will include most recent sensors and methodologies such as biology sensors –metabarcoding, eDNA, imaging (combination with automatic classification), ocean sound and bioacoustics –. Passive acoustic monitoring provides valuable insights into geophysics, biodiversity, ecosystem health, climate-driven soundscape changes, and anthropogenic impacts such as noise pollution and vessel collisions with marine mammals.
To face the increased cost of the energy and to progress on the decarbonisation of research infrastructures, we need more sustainable and less maintenance demanding systems such as Smart cables and fibre optic sensing technologies in submarine telecommunication cables (DAS and SOP), where the EMSO community has strong interests and the wish to establish EMSO as a reference player, more autonomous systems in energy and mobility. The next version of cable technology will integrate more sensors and communication technologies (such as the wireless one).
EMSO will redesign a Smart, Greener and Lower cost infrastructure and integrate emerging technologies.
Picture: EGIM with lander. Credits: Ifremer/ GEORGE project
