The international conference “SMART Cables, Science and Society: Towards a deep-sea long-term monitoring of the global Ocean” aims to strengthen the role of SMART Cables as a strategic digital infrastructure for continuous, long-term observation of the deep ocean.

Co-organized by INESC TEC (through INESCTEC.OCEAN), Latin Polar Science and the Portuguese National Committee for the UN Ocean Decade (CNDO), the event brings together stakeholders to discuss seabed data collection for oceanography, climate monitoring and disaster prevention.