Thursday, 29 November 2012

IMPORTANCE OF SENSOR WEBS IN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH


IMPORTANCE OF SENSOR WEBS IN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
Sensors are basic instruments have the capacity to transform various types of environmental stimuli (physical, biological, chemical) in to transmissible and interpretable signals. Sensor web consists of three layers sensor layer, communication layer and information layer.
For environmental research numerous sensors aggregated and use. Sensor web is a web of sensors, sensor system, its networks, data and metadata capabilities to act as a coordinated macro instrument. Sensor web used for sensing system such as weather and air pollution monitoring stations and earth observation satellites. Sensor web provide valuable tool for earth system science used as real time and open ended (Open standards, models, service and Meta data definition) tool. Sensor web also used for social ecological system sustainability by using qualitative and quantitative model.

REFERENCE:Holling,c.s.(2001):Understanding complexity of Economic,Ecological and Social systems.
Sensor web for environmental research-Nishadh,K.A-AZZEZ,P.A.
Image from:http://www.eeweb.com/websites/sensors-web-portal

8 comments:

  1. Ohh..wow I never knew about it..thanks for the post

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  2. Information system helping lots in the Ecological researches but still Ecologists want to learn how to use information system effectively

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  3. information+ecology=sustainable development

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  4. the topic is very new for me,,,,and it sounds good

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  5. This idea, i believe , would be very useful in predicting weather patterns and climatic variations.... nice intro

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