Title :
Monitoring in a High-Arctic Environment: Some Lessons from MANA
Author :
Chang, Marcus ; Bonnet, Philippe
Author_Institution :
IT Univ. of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Abstract :
Monitoring terrestrial high-Arctic ecosystems is difficult because of their limited access, extreme weather, and absence of communication infrastructure. A sensor-network-based data acquisition system in Zackenberg, Greenland, addresses these challenges.
Keywords :
data acquisition; distributed sensors; ecology; environmental monitoring (geophysics); hydrological equipment; Greenland; MANA; Monitoring Remote Environments with Autonomous Sensor-Network-Based Data Acquisition; Zackenberg; communication infrastructure; high-arctic ecosystems; high-arctic environment; sensor-network-based data acquisition system; Computerized monitoring; Costs; Data acquisition; Ecosystems; Global warming; Lakes; Optical sensors; Remote monitoring; Sampling methods; Spatial resolution; Capoh; MANA; arctic monitoring systems; field experiment; pervasive computing; sensor networks; wireless;
Journal_Title :
Pervasive Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MPRV.2010.53
