Monitoring in a High-Arctic Environment: Some Lessons from MANA
Monitoring terrestrial high-arctic ecosystems is important because of their great exposure to global warming. It is also very challenging because the high-arctic is a remote region, with extreme weather, and no communication infrastructure. In the MANA project, we tackle the challenges of monitoring...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.414.5572 2023-05-15T14:39:31+02:00 Monitoring in a High-Arctic Environment: Some Lessons from MANA Marcus Chang The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2010 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.414.5572 http://www.itu.dk/people/phbo/Slides/mana-lessons.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.414.5572 http://www.itu.dk/people/phbo/Slides/mana-lessons.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.itu.dk/people/phbo/Slides/mana-lessons.pdf text 2010 ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T03:33:13Z Monitoring terrestrial high-arctic ecosystems is important because of their great exposure to global warming. It is also very challenging because the high-arctic is a remote region, with extreme weather, and no communication infrastructure. In the MANA project, we tackle the challenges of monitoring in a high-arctic environment. We designed, built, and deployed a sensor network based data acquisition system for yearround lake monitoring in North-East Greenland. In this paper, we describe our system design and report the lessons we learnt from the first year of deployment. We emphasize the issues we underestimated initially: i.e., the consequences of operating in a remote region, the impact of extreme weather not only on system design but also on operator activities, and the demands that derive from the absence of communication infrastructure. We also reflect on the supremacy of Murphy’s law for unattended systems operating in hostile environments and on what it means for system design. 1 Text Arctic East Greenland Global warming Greenland Unknown Arctic Greenland |
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Monitoring terrestrial high-arctic ecosystems is important because of their great exposure to global warming. It is also very challenging because the high-arctic is a remote region, with extreme weather, and no communication infrastructure. In the MANA project, we tackle the challenges of monitoring in a high-arctic environment. We designed, built, and deployed a sensor network based data acquisition system for yearround lake monitoring in North-East Greenland. In this paper, we describe our system design and report the lessons we learnt from the first year of deployment. We emphasize the issues we underestimated initially: i.e., the consequences of operating in a remote region, the impact of extreme weather not only on system design but also on operator activities, and the demands that derive from the absence of communication infrastructure. We also reflect on the supremacy of Murphy’s law for unattended systems operating in hostile environments and on what it means for system design. 1 |
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