The natural environment is complex and changes continuously at varying paces. Many, like the weather, we notice from day to day. However, patterns and rhythms examined over time give us the bigger picture. These weather statistics become climate and help us build an understanding of the patterns of change over the long term. Real-Time Environmental Monitoring: Sensors and Systems introduces the fundamentals of environmental monitoring, based on electronic sensors, instruments, and systems that allow real-time and long-term data acquisition, data-logging, and telemetry.
The book details state-of-the-art technology, using a practical approach, and includes applications to many environmental and ecological systems. In the first part of the book, the author develops a story of how starting with sensors, you can progressively build more complex instruments, leading to entire systems that end with databases and web servers. In the second part, he covers a variety of sensors and systems employed to measure environmental variables in air, water, soils, vegetation canopies, and wildlife observation and tracking.
This is an emerging area that is very important to some aspects of environmental assessment and compliance monitoring. Real-time monitoring approaches can facilitate the cost effective collection of data over time and, to some extent, negate the need for sample, collection, handling, and transport to a laboratory, either on-site or off-site. It provides the tools you need to develop, employ, and maintain environmental monitors.
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List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Author
Chapter 1 : Introduction
Section I : Section Sensors to Systems
Chapter 2 : Sensors and Transducers : Basic Circuits
Chapter 3 : Sensors and Transducers : Bridge Circuits
Chapter 4 : Signal Conditioning and Analog-to-Digital Converters
Chapter 5 : Data Acquisition Systems
Chapter 6 : Single-Board Computers and Microcontrollers
Chapter 7 : Wireless Technologies and Telemetry
Chapter 8 : Wireless Sensor Networks
Chapter 9 : Power
Chapter 10 : Databases and Web Access
Section II : Applications to Atmospheric Processes, Water Resources, Terrestrial Ecosystems, and Wildlife Monitoring
Chapter 11 : Atmospheric Monitoring
Chapter 12 : Hydrology, Hydrodynamics, Water Quality, and Aquatic Ecosystems
Chapter 13 : Terrestrial Ecosystems
Chapter 14 : Wildlife Monitoring
Appendix I : Introduction to R
References
Index
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