HR: 0800h
AN: IN11A-0098    [Abstracts]
TI: Environmental sensing systems: some myths and some realities
AU: Estrin, D
EM: destrin@cs.ucla.edu
AF: UCLA/CENS, 420 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
AU: * Harmon, T
EM: tharmon@ucmerced.edu
AF: UC Merced/CENS, P.O. Box 2039, Merced, CA 95344, United States
AB: While it is true that miniaturization and Moore's law has enabled us to combine sensing, computation and wireless communication in integrated devices, and to embed networks of these devices in the physical world. We have found that it takes far more than embeddable devices to achieve the holy grail of "revealing the previously unobservable". Looking back over the past few years we have made our greatest strides using mobility at multiple scales, as well as judicious application of server-side models and processing. We will use examples from soil, river, and coastal water environments, where the respective science objectives include observing respiration and nutrient cycling, contaminant transport and mixing, and algal dynamics. In the context of these applications, this presentation will describe innovations in sensor devices, sampling algorithms, and data management.
DE: 9805 Instruments useful in three or more fields
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting