Real-Time Environmental Monitoring

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.