Aquatic Microbial and Terrestrial Ecology Observing Systems
The Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) is pioneering in-situ continuous measurement systems for environmental, physiological and ecological data. Among others research applications, like TEOS, they are creating and applying a new genre of sensor networks for making observations in aquatic ecosystems, to better understand the dynamics of planktonic microbial populations. Field studies to date have focused on Lake Fulmor at the James Reserve in the San Jacinto Mountains, CA. The goal for the field component of the Aquatic Microbial Observing Systems is to develop robust, decentralized algorithms and supporting hardware that enable a wireless sensor network consisting of sensor-equipped buoys and a sensor/sampler-equipped autonomous vehicle (robotic boat) that can perform adaptive hydrographic and biological sampling using the information provided by the network.
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