TY - JOUR
T1 - A mobile observatory powered by sun and wind for near real time measurements of atmospheric, glacial, terrestrial, limnic and coastal oceanic conditions in remote off-grid areas
AU - Rysgaard, Søren
AU - Bjerge, Kim
AU - Boone, Wieter
AU - Frandsen, Egon
AU - Graversen, Michael
AU - Thomas Høye, Toke
AU - Jensen, Bjarne
AU - Johnen, Geoffrey
AU - Antoni Jackowicz-Korczynski, Marcin
AU - Taylor Kerby, Jeffrey
AU - Kortegaard, Simon
AU - Mastepanov, Mikhail
AU - Melvad, Claus
AU - Schmidt Mikkelsen, Peter
AU - Mortensen, Keld
AU - Nørgaard, Carsten
AU - Poulsen, Ebbe
AU - Riis, Tenna
AU - Sørensen, Lotte
AU - Røjle Christensen, Torben
PY - 2022/10
Y1 - 2022/10
N2 - Climate change is rapidly altering the Arctic environment. Although long-term environmental observations have been made at a few locations in the Arctic, the incomplete coverage from ground stations is a main limitation to observations in these remote areas. Here we present a wind and sun powered multi-purpose mobile observatory (ARC-MO) that enables near real time measurements of air, ice, land, rivers, and marine parameters in remote off-grid areas. Two test units were constructed and placed in Northeast Greenland where they have collected data from cabled and wireless instruments deployed in the environment since late summer 2021. The two units can communicate locally via WiFi (units placed 25 km apart) and transmit near-real time data globally over satellite. Data are streamed live and accessible from (https://gios.org). The cost of one mobile observatory unit is c. 304.000€. These test units demonstrate the possibility for integrative and automated environmental data collection in remote coastal areas and could serve as models for a proposed global observatory system.
AB - Climate change is rapidly altering the Arctic environment. Although long-term environmental observations have been made at a few locations in the Arctic, the incomplete coverage from ground stations is a main limitation to observations in these remote areas. Here we present a wind and sun powered multi-purpose mobile observatory (ARC-MO) that enables near real time measurements of air, ice, land, rivers, and marine parameters in remote off-grid areas. Two test units were constructed and placed in Northeast Greenland where they have collected data from cabled and wireless instruments deployed in the environment since late summer 2021. The two units can communicate locally via WiFi (units placed 25 km apart) and transmit near-real time data globally over satellite. Data are streamed live and accessible from (https://gios.org). The cost of one mobile observatory unit is c. 304.000€. These test units demonstrate the possibility for integrative and automated environmental data collection in remote coastal areas and could serve as models for a proposed global observatory system.
KW - Arctic
KW - Autonomous
KW - Environment
KW - Near-real time
KW - Observatory
KW - Remote
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85133643843&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ohx.2022.e00331
DO - 10.1016/j.ohx.2022.e00331
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 35795086
AN - SCOPUS:85133643843
SN - 2468-0672
VL - 12
JO - HardwareX
JF - HardwareX
M1 - e00331
ER -