JAMSTEC - Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

Yokohama,  Kanagawa 
Japan
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JAMSTEC will take on the challenge to develop an integrated and comprehensive understanding of the Ocean, Earth, and Life and the pursuit of ever-advanced theories to open new paradigms of research.

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• Success in multi-point long-term observations of sea floor crustal movements using an unmanned surface vehicle -Major progress in developing a high-temporal-resolution understanding of the current state of Seismogenic zone - (Nov 13, 2020)

  Success in multi-point long-term observations of sea floor crustal movements using an unmanned surface vehicle
  -Major progress in developing a high-temporal-resolution understanding of the current state of Seismogenic zone -

  Key points

  • Using an autonomous sea surface vehicle with automatic navigation, data were successfully recorded by patrolling 14 seafloor crustal movement observation points along the Japan Trench over a period of approximately 40 days.
  • The use of autonomous surface vehicles can significantly reduce the cost of GNSS-acoustic positioning coupled with observations of submarine crustal movements, which have thus far necessitated the use of ships.
  • It is now realistic to increase the frequency of observations, and the detection of changes in interplate locking and slipping over time along shallow plate boundaries (i.e., near trench axes) can be expected.

  More detail => http://www.jamstec.go.jp/e/about/press_release/20200930/

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