Deliverables
The SUBMERSE project has a range of deliverables associated with the activities. These will be made available on this page once published.D4.6 Exploitation and sustainability - final
Published date | 5 May 2026
This deliverable outlines the final discussions on sustainability and exploitation of project's results. This final report includes an overview of pathways to impact emerging from the project activities and how the consortium conveys sustainability actions regarding key concepts such as governance, infrastructure as well as data management and uptake, including cross-cutting security issues.
D4.4 Training report
Published date | 5 May 2026
This training report details the capacity-building activities organised by the SUBMERSE project to bridge knowledge gaps in using submarine fibre-optic cables as environmental sensing infrastructure.
D4.3 Stakeholder engagement and outreach report - final
Published date | 5 May 2026
This deliverable is the final report on the stakeholder engagement and outreach activities performed within the frame of SUBMERSE project. The report is related to Work Package 4 Communication, Exploitation and Impact.
D3.4 Use case and community engagement report
Published date | 5 May 2026
The SUBMERSE project demonstrates the successful deployment and operation of fibre-optic sensing technologies - Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS), State of Polarisation (SOP), and SOP-OTDR - across multiple submarine and terrestrial cable infrastructures in Europe.
D3.3 Open source research software for automatic earthquake detection, data ingestion in standard seismological software, cetology, oceanography
Published date | 5 May 2026
The sharing of software through public repositories is crucial for making sure that methodological innovations are usable by others. Software has been developed as part of the project to allow streaming of selected channels or processing outputs through the SeedLink protocol, which makes those streams immediately accessible for ingestion into EIDA archives and to be integrated into monitoring workflows.
D3.2 Continuous DAS and SOP waveforms and parametric data archive, delivered through EIDA nodes and HCMR for solid earth and marine communities
Published date | 5 May 2026
SUBMERSE has successfully recorded fibre optic sensing data using three different technologies, DAS, SOP and SOP OTDR, on five sites across Europe. Most of these sites continue recording. Data is being stored on facilities provided by SUBMERSE partners.
D2.8 Research instrument proof of concept operational evaluation
Published date | 5 May 2026
This document describes the deployment scenarios in three locations according to the project description. The document gives an overview of the physical installation scenarios and its status as it is by 1 April 2025.
D2.5 State of Polarisation sensing comparison report
Published date | 5 May 2026
This deliverable summarises the work done in the State of Polarisation (SOP) Task in WP2 of the SUBMERSE project up to 30.10.2025 in terms of the SOP interrogator devices deployment on selected, geographically separated submarine links and comparison of their performance and results.
D2.3 Report into DAS observations in relation to fibre technology used
Published date | 5 May 2026
The purpose of this report is to introduce the reader to key concepts of fibre optic sensing often referred to as DAS (Distributed Acoustic Sensing). The DAS field laboratory in Svalbard is presented and several examples of various recordings ranging from whale calls to earthquakes and ocean gravity waves are presented and discussed with respect to coupling and signal effects.
Opportunities and policy perspectives of subsea fibre-sensing technology
Published date | 21 April 2026
This policy brief highlights the potential of the technology and innovative methods deployed in SUBMERSE project, while reflecting on core challenges around data governance, integration into existing research infrastructures (RIs) and coordination across varied regulatory environments. Furthermore, it discusses the importance of the security and resilience of submarine cables, in line with recent geopolitical developments.
D2.2 Updated technical architecture report
Published date | 17 April 2026
This deliverable presents the technical architecture developed within the SUBMERSE project to support largescale fibre-optic sensing using operational telecommunications infrastructure.
D1.5 Data management plan and data policy (final)
Published date | 29 January 2026
This Data Management Plan outlines the principles, workflows, and responsibilities guiding the management of Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS), transponder based State of Polarisation (SOP), polarimeter based SOP, Radio Frequency Optical Time Domain Reflectometry (RF OTDR), SOP OTDR, and derived datasets produced within SUBMERSE, a Horizon Europe project developing a novel research instrument based on live submarine fibre-optic communication cables
Fibre optic sensing security architecture - a SUBMERSE white paper
Published date | 10 March 2025
The SUBMERSE project explores Fiber Optic Sensing (FOS) as a tool for diverse research fields, applying the technology's ability to detect subtle acoustics, strain as well as slight pressure and temperature changes along underwater fibre optic cables.
D3.1 Interim report on data handling, software development and use cases, including prototype versions of selected software modules
Published date | 6 December 2024
This report describes progress on developing scientific and societal relevant applications of the DAS fibre technologies. Much of the effort was focussed on developing and implementing methods for analysis of Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) data based on open datasets worldwide, although first site-specific observational results are being generated from the Madeira site.
D2.4 State of Polarisation design and infrastructure integration model
Published date | 24 November 2024
This deliverable summarises the work done in the State of Polarisation (SoP) Task In WP2 and sets parameters and principles for the integration of SoP measuring devices into the infrastructure engaged in the SUBMERSE project.
D4.5 Exploitation and sustainability - interim report
Published date | 31 October 2024
This deliverable will outline an initial set of ideas on sustainability and exploitation of project's results. This interim report includes an analysis of pathways to impact emerging from the project activities and how the consortium is preparing actions for sustainability regarding key concepts such as governance, funding schemes, infrastructure maintenance, data management and uptake as well as legal and security issues.
D2.6 Data pre-processing report
Published date | 28 October 2024
This report presents the results of distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) and state of polarisation (SOP) data pre-processing stages and implementation. Data pre-processing is the essential step in the data management pipeline that involves cleaning, transforming, and organising raw data to prepare it for analysis or model training.
D2.7 Initial report on the architecture used for the design, implementation, and integration scenarios of AAI, Monitoring Service, PID Service
Published date | 30 July 2024
This document outlines the current design that is being worked towards by the SUBMERSE consortium partners to realise the aims of the project. The system itself is composed of multiple parts. These include the sensing equipment, the storage and processing facilities, the dissemination facilities, the network which connects all the equipment together, the access control system, and the synchronisation of time and software across each of the sites.
D2.1 SUBMERSE technical architecture report
Published date | 26 April 2024
This document outlines the current technical architecture of the SUBMERSE system. It covers the principles used to develop the architecture, underlying technologies which acquire data from fibre optic cables, the supporting services to store, process and make available the data.
Data management plan (version 1.0)
Published date | 4 December 2023
The data management procedures that are developed and implemented during the SUBMERSE project are presented in this document as a first version 1, in that it is an integral part of the SUBMERSE project to devise an optimal management for the very complex SUBMERSE data – continuously streamed, in vast quantities, from several locations, with several bottom-of-ocean sensors, potentially providing highly sensitive data.
D4.2 Stakeholder engagement and outreach plan
Published date | 1 December 2023
This deliverable describes the Stakeholder Engagement and Outreach Plan for the SUBMarine cablEs for ReSearch and Exploration (SUBMERSE) project. The deliverable is related to Task 4.2 Stakeholder Engagement and Outreach and provides the objective and approach for identifying and engaging with the stakeholders relevant for the purpose of the project.
D4.1 Project communications strategy and plan
Published date | 22 September 2023
This deliverable describes the communications strategy and plan for the SUBMERSE project.