From the outside, it may have appeared that not much was happening with NEPTUNE Canada last fall. But those were busy days, as we worked through a plethora of tasks required to commission our infrastructure, instruments, security provisions and data products.

Observatory Commissioning

Observatory commissioning is an important period in the life cycle of any major project, when every element is thoroughly tested before being officially made available to users. More precisely, commissioning activities covered multiple areas such as underwater infrastructure verification (withAlcatel-Lucent), shore station equipment (Alcatel-Lucent and DMAS), national security checks by the navies, and of course all the data flow elements at the University of Victoria and at the...