Enviro-Net: A Network of Ground-based Sensors for Tropical Dry Forests in the Americas

摘要

Monitoring ecosystems is necessary to understand the development and the response of forest ecosystems to climate and human disturbance. With the increasing availability of sensor data, new techniques for data analysis are being introduced. This paper presents the Enviro-Net Project, which involves several deployments of sensor systems throughout the Americas. Such deployments use various ground-based monitoring solutions to assess the conditions in tropical dry forests over long periods of time. This work describes these deployments and our efforts in managing the systems themselves and the data generated by them, also discusses issues related to data cleaning, and the Web portal developed to aid in data management, visualization and analysis tasks.