The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands participated in the General Assembly of the GEORGE project funded by Horizon Europe for the development of new technologies to improve ocean observations.
The technologies developed will represent the next level in long-term systematic autonomous ocean observations and consist of the development of new sensors for the observation of the carbon cycle and greenhouse gases.
In the project, PLOCAN, as a member of EMSO ERIC, is in charge of accompanying a European company in the testing and validation of underwater communication technologies applied to the information obtained by sensors and autonomous platforms, on the test bed and using PLOCAN’s offshore ocean platform. The tests, based on an underwater protocol based on the Internet of Things, will be carried out throughout the year 2025.
The GEORGE project addresses variables such as alkalinity, dissolved and atmospheric carbon dioxide, acidity, dissolved methane, and passive acoustics for the observation of atmospheric variables linked to processes occurring at the ocean-atmosphere interface, and also encompasses the electromechanical integration of these sensors into various observation platforms.
GEORGE brings together 28 leading partners from academia and industry, including three research infrastructures: EMSO ERIC, Euro-Argo ERIC and ICOS ERIC. Together, these three ERICs cover the full extent of European marine waters.
