Project overview
This project will seed new research that establishes the technical, legal and policy status of applying Southampton’s emergent seabed survey technology to cable security and environmental monitoring. The project is funded by the Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute (SMMI) through Higher Education Innovation Funding (HEIF).
This project will
- explore and seek to extend the technical limitations of existing AUV platforms to provide long range, long duration autonomous visual survey of submarine cables, and identify the key design requirements and technical barriers to realise such a system for real-world monitoring scenarios
- explore policy enablers that surround policing of these critical infrastructure, and investigate how robust evidence can be gathered regarding their environmental interactions.
The project brings together researchers from engineering, law and public policy, to address the technical, legal and policy aspects needed to protect critical subsea infrastructure and understand how to monitor the long term environmental interactions of the cables.
This project will
- explore and seek to extend the technical limitations of existing AUV platforms to provide long range, long duration autonomous visual survey of submarine cables, and identify the key design requirements and technical barriers to realise such a system for real-world monitoring scenarios
- explore policy enablers that surround policing of these critical infrastructure, and investigate how robust evidence can be gathered regarding their environmental interactions.
The project brings together researchers from engineering, law and public policy, to address the technical, legal and policy aspects needed to protect critical subsea infrastructure and understand how to monitor the long term environmental interactions of the cables.
