Infrastuctures

INFRASTRUCTURES


The complex platforms built, tested and implemented over the years by INGV have required and still require complementary structures necessary for their construction, development, operation and management. All the components forming part of the Western Ionian Sea infrastructure are described as follows

 

Ground Laboratory

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Ground Laboratory site of the Western Ionian Sea infrastructure hosted at the INFN Southern National Laboratories.

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Integration of the instrumentation in the observatory frame at the ground laboratory

Ground Laboratory

 

The Western Ionian Sea has two laboratories on land, thanks to the many agreements between the National Institute of Nuclear Physics -INFN- and INGV, the first is housed in the port of Catania, while the second is located in Capo Passero di Porto Palo, in the province of Syracuse and hosts the Data Center of the Western Ionian Sea.

 

The laboratory in Catania hosts the ground terminal part of the electro-optical cable which supplies energy to the submarine instrumentation and manages the data acquisition system acquired on a dedicated server.The laboratory  workstations are used for on-site monitoring of all the parameters acquired by the submarine observatories. The acquisition and management servers have an ultra-fast internet connection to transfer  the data in almost real time to the servers which guarantee the usability of the data to users. In the same way, the connection makes it possible to monitor the parameters and to manage the observatories completely remotely. In the laboratory, before each deployment operation at sea,  are also carried out the integration operations of the instrumentation on the platform frame as well as all the connection and the control tests of the observatory and itsinstrumentation installed

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