To improve tsunami monitoring for NZ and our neighbours, a network of 12 DART (Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami) systems has been deployed in strategic areas in the Southwest Pacific.

Tsunami early warning systems rely on the timely and reliable acquisition of relevant data either from buoys at sea or from tide gauges in ports and its subsequent transmission to warning centres.

Conductivity and water current are measured at selected stations. A new task is the operation of the DART (Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis) buoys. DART is a fleet of tsunami detecting ...

The remaining $30 million (USD) is slated to upgrade the Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART) Ocean Observing System, a very long name for a very useful network of buoys designed ...

It oversaw the development of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System and includes early warning technology such as seismographic stations and deep-ocean assessment and reporting of ...