Gathering data from moorings, ferries, drifters, gliders, remotely operated vehicles, and ships. 


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Réseaux mobiles

Measuring ocean currents and wave heights to support safer shipping, incident response and tsunami detection.

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Radar océanographique

ONC's multimedia collection includes imagery, live and archived video and audio, maps, and books. 

Découvrez les pionniers et les innovateurs à l'origine de la création et de la vision de l'observatoire océanique national du Canada.

Localized systems for continuous, real-time ocean monitoring in Canada’s coastal communities.

Données communautaires des observatoires

Fibre-optic cable provides power and connectivity to subsea instruments, enabling real-time continuous, long time series data collection.  

Réseaux câblés

# Cabled observatories
ONC maintains a large regional cabled observatory network off Canada’s west coast, known within the science community as NEPTUNE (**N**orth **E**ast **P**acific **T**ime-series **U**ndersea **N**etworked **E**xperiments). Hundreds of kilometres of subsea fibre optic cable provide power and Internet connectivity to thousands of  sensors. High resolution, continuous, free, open data from these sensors can be accessed via ONC’s digital infrastructure Oceans 3.0.




Map of ONC's NEPTUNE observatory network.

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## Community observatories
Modelled on our large cabled observatories, community observatories are small versions tailored to the needs of coastal and Indigenous communities. These cabled ocean observing systems make it possible for community members to conduct year-round continuous monitoring of their own ocean environments.


community ocean observatory at Kitamaat Village

In March 2016, ONC installed a community ocean observatory at Kitamaat Village, on the northern coast of British Columbia. 