How Fiber-Optic Cables Track Silent Bow Wave Vibrations
Researchers can now detect swimming blue whales off the coast of Svalbard even when the marine mammals are completely silent, using underwater fibre-optic cables and a 100-year-old physics equation. According to Martin Landrø, head of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology’s (NTNU) Centre for Geophysical Forecasting, animals moving through the water create very low-frequency … Read more