# Strategic Planning
# Fri 04 Jan 2005

# Questions
- What are major science initiatives you're pursuing?
  - What are the major science questions asked?
    - What is societal/ecological impact of this question?
    - What potential applications are there?
    - What are the favored approaches to finding the answer?
      - What (technology) is required for this approach?
      - What are the economic drivers?

# Matrix
What is cheapest $/bit?
What is cheapest $/day?
What is cheapest $/hectare?

Mooring
 -Hub buoy w/ many small, networked (profiling?) buoys
 -Buoy/drifter hybrid

AUV
 -acoustic comms/networking
 -mapping
 -docking

ALPS (LaGrangian)
 -energy harvesting (drop anchor and collect energy), recharging
 -station/region keeping
 -coastal/open ocean hybrid optimized
 -sample processing
 -networked gliders

ROV
 -3D scene construction
 -quantitative video
 -telepresence

Benthic Rover
 -mapping
 -hybrid profiling/crawling/drifting

Profiler 
 -energy (wind,wave,solar,chemical,thermal,biofuel) harvesting, recharging
 -upper 20 m of water column
 -long/short term deployment optimizations
 -propulsion/buoyancy engines
 -fast/slow profile speed (fine/coarse profiles)

Sensor Networks
 -
 
Cabled Observatory
 -event detection/response
 -real-time control
 -telepresence
 -real-time data mining