Abstract :
The harsh, remote conditions of the Antarctic ice cap pose formidable challenges to continuous, year-round geophysical data acquisition. The author designed and built a serial data-acquisition engine using the GNU/Linux operating system on a small single-board computer to remotely record earthquakes
Keywords :
data acquisition; earthquakes; geophysics computing; operating systems (computers); seismometers; Antarctica; GNU/Linux operating system; earthquakes; geophysical data acquisition; remote conditions; single-board computer; Antarctica; Costs; Engines; Geophysics computing; Instruments; Linux; Memory; Open source software; Operating systems; Robust stability;
