A mobile observatory powered by sun and wind for near real time measurements of atmospheric, glacial, terrestrial, limnic and coastal oceanic conditions in remote off-grid areas.
Arctic
Autonomous
Environment
Near-real time
Observatory
Remote
Journal
HardwareX
ISSN: 2468-0672
Titre abrégé: HardwareX
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101710262
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Oct 2022
Oct 2022
Historique:
received:
29
04
2022
revised:
15
06
2022
accepted:
15
06
2022
entrez:
7
7
2022
pubmed:
8
7
2022
medline:
8
7
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Climate change is rapidly altering the Arctic environment. Although long-term environmental observations have been made at a few locations in the Arctic, the incomplete coverage from ground stations is a main limitation to observations in these remote areas. Here we present a wind and sun powered multi-purpose mobile observatory (ARC-MO) that enables near real time measurements of air, ice, land, rivers, and marine parameters in remote off-grid areas. Two test units were constructed and placed in Northeast Greenland where they have collected data from cabled and wireless instruments deployed in the environment since late summer 2021. The two units can communicate locally via WiFi (units placed 25 km apart) and transmit near-real time data globally over satellite. Data are streamed live and accessible from (https://gios.org). The cost of one mobile observatory unit is
Identifiants
pubmed: 35795086
doi: 10.1016/j.ohx.2022.e00331
pii: S2468-0672(22)00076-1
pmc: PMC9251812
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
e00331Informations de copyright
© 2022 The Author(s).
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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