• DocumentCode
    1528175
  • Title

    Monitoring in a High-Arctic Environment: Some Lessons from MANA

  • Author

    Chang, Marcus ; Bonnet, Philippe

  • Author_Institution
    IT Univ. of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Volume
    9
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    16
  • Lastpage
    23
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Pervasive Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1536-1268
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MPRV.2010.53
  • Filename
    5499457