Publications (3)0 Total impact
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Conference Proceeding: Modular Sensor Architecture for Unobtrusive Routine Clinical Diagnosis.
24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCS 2004 Workshops), 23-24 March 2004, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan; 01/2004 -
Article: e-Science from the Antarctic to the GRID
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ABSTRACT: Monitoring life-processes in a frozen lake in the Antarctic raises many practical challenges. To supplement manual monitoring we have designed, built and successfully deployed a remote monitoring device on one of the lakes of interest. This returns data to the Antarctic base over the Iridium satellite phone network. This provides us with a new and uniquely detailed view of the lifeprocesses in that environment, and is allowing us to understand that environment in new ways, for example exploring diurnal effects, and detailed energy flow models. We have integrated this sensing device into a common Grid-based software infrastructure; this makes the device and its sensors visible on the Grid as services, and also maintains an archive of sensor measurements. A desktop user interface allows non-programmers to work with this data in a flexible way. The experience of creating and deploying this device has given us a rich view of the many elements and processes that must be brought together to make possible this kind of e-Science.09/2003; -
Article: Real-time physical data acquisition through a remote sensing platform on a polar lake
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ABSTRACT: We describe the design and installation of environmental monitoring equipment on a large freshwater Antarctic lake (Crooked Lake, 68°37'S, 78°23'E). The system recorded ice thickness and photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), ultraviolet (UVB) radiation, and temperature at a range of depths in the water column. The data were accessed remotely at Davis Station (15 km distant) by telemetry. The remote sensing platform produced continuous quasi real-time data, enabling the development of accurate detailed models, e.g., ice heat budget models during seasonal melt out. The prototype system has the capacity for the addition of further instrumen- tation, for example, fluorimeters. Here we present an illustrative preliminary data set derived during the sum- mer immediately prior to ice-cover break up and after winter redeployment of the platform.
