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May 11, 2005

NSF Funding of Sensor Camera Networks

The NY Times has a story on the role of sensor networks for environmental studies. The work is largely funded by the National Science Foundation.

U.C.L.A. Center for Embedded Network Sensing on the forest project, which is in its third year. The James Reserve, some 90 miles southeast of Los Angeles on a mountain flank that is home to 1,500 species of plants and animals, including the yellow-legged frog and willow flycatcher, now bristles with enough monitoring gear to make it one of the world's most advanced tests of ecologic networking. Wireless motes, cameras and other sensors track the nesting habits of birds, the life cycles of moss and the carbon dioxide uptake of various soils. Robots move along wires strung from tree to tree, lowering sensors to take temperature, humidity and light-level readings at different levels.

Thousands of miles away, scientists are starting a similar effort - but wet. They are designing floating robots, wireless sensors and distributed computers in an effort to better understand and improve the water quality of the Hudson River. The project, known as RiverNet, is to use roughly two dozen instruments in all. Financed by the science foundation, it seeks to track fertilizer runoff from farms, heat from power plants, growth of algae and pollutants like polychlorinated biphenyls.

Posted by rshah at May 11, 2005 07:53 AM

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