PLOCAN, an Off-shore environmentally sustainable infrastructure to accelerate ocean research, development and innovation at increasing depths.

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Defense date2010-03-04
PublisherSARTI (Technological Development Centre of Remote Acquisition and Data processing Systems)
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Abstract
The Canary Islands Oceanic Platform (PLOCAN) is a public infrastructure
for research, development and innovation in the fields of ocean science and technology
at increasing depths. Located East of Gran Canaria Island (Canary Islands,
Spain), PLOCAN will provide rapid access to great depths at short distance from the
shore, accelerating research and the generation of water column and deep-ocean
knowledge. Specifically, PLOCAN will host a permanent deep-sea observatory, be
a test-bed for innovative technologies, form specialists and provide training in the
field and be a national base of manned and unmanned submersibles. PLOCAN’s vision
is focused on generation and exchange of science and innovations between
the academic and the socio-economic spheres. PLOCAN will be a fully instrumented
gate to the deep ocean, an efficient and cost-effective solution to test products
and processes , and cluster private and public partnerships to face undersea challenges.
Two years ahead of the planned official opening and start of operations, the
academic world, entrepreneurs and corporations have already started to submit
proposals to be included in the science and technology agenda. Activities will be
essentially multidisciplinary, ranging from renewable energies, aquaculture, ocean
observing fixed systems and submersibles, to biosciences and emerging technologies
such as new materials and nanotechnologies. PLOCAN’s vision is to be a true
accelerator for marine and deep-sea research and development, with optimal conditions
and full environmental guarantees
CitationHernández Brito, Joaquín; Delory, Eric; Llinás, Octavio. PLOCAN, an Off-shore environmentally sustainable infrastructure to accelerate ocean research, development and innovation at increasing depths.. "Instrumentation Viewpoint", 4 Març 2010, núm. 8.
ISSN1886-4864
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