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PLOCAN is a multipurpose technical-scientific
service infrastructure that provides support for research, technological
development and innovation in the marine and maritime sectors, available to
public and private users. PLOCAN offers both onshore and offshore experimental
facilities and laboratories, operational throughout the whole year thanks to
the Canary Islands excellent climatic conditions. PLOCAN also brings a broad
experience in large national and EU marine/maritime projects.
PLOCAN provides:
- An ocean observatory for the
continuous and real-time monitoring in fields such as the study of global
change and ocean acidification, water-column and deep-sea ecosystems, ocean
biogeochemistry and geophysics. It consists of several permanent and mobile
systems that interoperate to offer environmental impact monitoring, instrument
testing, calibration and validation from shallow waters to the deep seabed.
- A test bed for the research,
demonstration and operation of marine technologies, especially those related to
marine renewable energy. We provide a robust and secure underwater electric
infrastructure to evacuate the generated energy to the power grid connection,
and a control centre for data analysis.
- A base for underwater vehicles:
we own a series of underwater unmanned state-of-the-art technologies such as
gliders, ROVs and AUVs. Besides, we support missions deploying customers´
vehicles. We have a dedicated control room to track the UUVs on real-time and
laboratories and warehouses to support the missions´ needs.
The construction of the Oceanic Platform of the
Canary Islands is 85% funded by the European Union, the European Regional
Development Fund (ERDF), the ERDF Operational Program for the Canary Islands
2007-2013, in Topic 1, Development of the economy Of
Knowledge, Priority
issue 02.
The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN)
is a Research Infrastructure (RI) labeled by the ICTS (Unique Scientific and
Technological Infrastructure) Spanish National Roadmap, co-funded by the
Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of the Spanish government and
the Canary Islands government and by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
under the Operational Programme of the Canary Islands.
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