Deployments

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) selected Nanometrics for the upgrade and expansion of existing networks and the establishment of new seismological observatories. Nanometrics was awarded this tender based on its background and expertise in deploying large-scale mission critical seismic projects.

Nanometrics delivered a turnkey seismic surveillance monitoring system consisting of Trillium broadband seismometers, Taurus digitizers, real-time satellite telemetry and data center software for the acquisition (NAQS), analysis (Hydra), publication and notification of earthquakes (Athena).

As the major initiative of the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007 – 2009, Antarctica’s Gamburtsev Province Project (AGAP) investigates the Gamburtsev subglacial mountain range in the East Antarctic. Aerogeophysical surveys and ground-based seismological studies are being conducted by scientists from the United States, Germany, China, United Kingdom, Australia and Japan to better understand why a mountain system the size of the Alps is located in the middle of the continent. The mountain range is completely covered by 600m of ice and snow.

As part of AGAP, the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, designed GAMSEIS (Gamburtsev Antarctic Mountains Seismic Experiment) to determine what is driving the mountains upward and how they may have contributed to the formation of the East Antarctic Ice sheet.

A large number of Nanometrics Taurus Digital Seismographs were recently deployed on the ice between Ellesmere Island, in the Canadian High Arctic, and Greenland.

The 150 unit Taurus deployment in April and early May 2006 was part of a wide angle reflection/refraction survey of the Lomonosov Ridge, a submarine mountain range of the Lincoln Sea. The joint Canada-Denmark expedition "Lomonosov Ridge Test of Appurtenance" or LORITA-1, was conducted to support offshore sovereignty claims by both Canada and Greenland (Denmark).