EMSO-Ligure Nice Infrastructure description (2017)
- Date of Deployment: 20 October 2015
- Location: Ligurian Sea (NW Mediterranean Sea)
- Type: Coastal cabled observatory
- Distance from land: 0.5 nautical miles
- Maximal depth: 30 m
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Communication and storage center

| - Short description: The Communication and storage center is the location where the submarine network connection to Internet, the data storage and the network technical data monitoring take place.
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Shore Station

| - Short description: The Shore Station houses the electrical and optical connections to the airport power grid and optical network.
| - Power supply
- Temperature probe
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East Station

| - Coordinates: 43°38,894' N and 07°13.352' E
- Short description: The East Station lays on a sand and mud seabed. The station hosts the node which distributes power, time stamping and communications to the submarine network.
| - Piezometer 3
- Node
- Junction Box
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West Station

| - Coordinates: 43°38,894' N and 07°13.352' E
- Short description: The West Station lays on a sand and mud seabed close to the edge of the 1979 landslide scar. The station serves the local set of sensors. It is dedicated to the studdy of earthquakes as a predisposing or triggering factor as regards submarine landslides.
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Autonomous devices

| - Piezometer 1A ( 43°38,646' N and 07°13.160' E )
- Piezometer 2 ( 43°38,873' N and 07°13.558' E )
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Data policy and access

| - Real time transmitted data: Free access, no quality check, counter of the number of consultation, download through DOI
- Periodically recovered data: Free access, previous year data treated by the quality assurance process, yearly recovery, download through DOI
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Maintenance

| - Maintenance frequency: 12 months
- Duration of operations: 2 days
- Services available: Cruise preparation, lab compatibility tests, implementation on site, data transmission, archiving and dissemination
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Contacts
- PI: Sébastien Garziglia3, Diane Rivet2
- Primary contact: Xavier Bompais3, Yann Hello2
- Data management contact: Thierry Carval3, Stéphane Barbot3
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1: CNRS, Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche/Mer, France
2: Geoazur, Université Côte d'Azur, IRD, OCA, CNRS
3: Ifremer, France