DocumentCode
1270126
Title
Penguins everywhere: GNU/Linux in Antarctica
Author
Anandakrishnan, Sridhar
Author_Institution
Alabama Univ., AL, USA
Volume
16
Issue
6
fYear
1999
Firstpage
90
Lastpage
96
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;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Software, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0740-7459
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/52.805480
Filename
805480
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