Fibre Optic Sensing Models

Tender description

The Authority is looking to understand the performance available from submarine fibre optic based sensing for acoustic monitoring of the underwater environment. The potential benefits of fibre optic based sensing, including distributed acoustic sensing, have been investigated and reported for several applications but have not been assessed rigorously. Consequently, there is a requirement to define, measure and quantify the performance for different technologies, such as point and distributed fibre optic sensors, and different configurations such as material properties and location of the fibre and properties of the surrounding environment. To support this requirement, and the subject of this Expression of Interest, the Authority is looking for information about models that have been developed for submarine fibre optic based sensing that could be used, or developed, to quantify performance when used for acoustic monitoring of the underwater environment or the measurement of acoustically-relevant properties of the underwater environment such as temperature, salinity and pressure. MORE INFORMATION AVAILABLE IN ATTACHED DOCUMENT