A Sensor Network for Glaciers

Abstract

The continuous advancements in wireless networks and miniaturisation have made the deployment of sensor networks to monitor the environment increasingly feasible. The potential advances to environmental sciences could be as great as the revolution produced by the development of remote sensing during the 1970s. Sensor network technology can provide basic scientific data as well as hazard warnings. This is particularly important in remote or hazardous environments where many fundamental processes have never been studied due to inaccessibility. In addition, more accessible environments could be monitored on an unprecedented scale.