PermaSense
WIRELESS SENSING IN HIGH ALPINE ENVIRONMENTS
Warming and thawing permafrost in steep alpine bedrock can affect slope stability, lead to natural hazards and complicate the operation of man-made infrastructure. To develop theoretical models for temperature simulation and for hazard assessment, continuous and reliable data of physical parameters in natural and diverse slope areas are required.
At present, only limited measurement data exist for selected locations, but no large-scale measurement series are available. This is partly due to the lack of inexpensive, easy to deploy and reliable measurement systems and dangerous and time consuming data collection in steep and inaccessible terrain.
In a joint computer science and geoscience project we have built and deployed a wireless sensor network for measuring permafrost related parameters. The project PermaSense aims at developing and demonstrating a flexible, distributed wireless sensor network (WSN) adapted to geophysical sensors with reliable and high-quality measurement systems for extreme environmental conditions.
A co-project of:
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