SEAMONSTER is a smart sensor web project carried out by the University of Alaska Southeast and Microsoft Research to support collaborative environmental science with near-real-time recovery of large volumes of environmental data. It is an implementation of first-generation sensor-web technologies intended to act as a scientific resource, a sensor web testbed, an educational tool, and a public resource. Advanced features include support for targeted observations, collection and analysis of data from heterogeneous nodes, adaptation in response to feedback, and Web publishing and discovering sensor resources. The data from the various sensors are integrated into a database and available in several formats. This kml file is pushed out every five minutes (for use in either Google Earth or Google Maps). The architecture is modular, allocates scarce resources in a principled way, provides redundancy, and connects events to end users. SEAMONSTER will thus be able to provide improved resource usage, response to rapidly evolving, transient phenomena, and improved data accuracy. Teaching objectives include scientist-teacher collaboration, fieldwork opportunities for both teachers and students, longer-term projects for dedicated students, and eventually an intuitive online virtual reality interface to coastal Southeast Alaska.
The sensor network in the Lemon Creek watershed near Juneau, Alaska is in place, and current effort is focused on communication between network nodes. Expansion is planned for subsequent years up into the Juneau Icefield and into the coastal marine environment of the Alexander Archipelago and the Tongass National Forest.
SEAMONSTER is funded by the NASA Advanced Information Systems Technology Program of the Earth-Sun System Technology Office and by the NOAA ISET (Interdisciplinary Environmental Technology) Cooperative Science Center.
Click here
for the SEAMONSTER page, here
for the public wiki forum, and
here
for Seamonster's Geoserver demo.
The following slide presentation is also available.