Название: Real-Time Environmental Monitoring: Sensors and Systems – Textbook, Second Edition
Автор: Miguel F. Acevedo
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2024
Страниц: 425
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 22.0 MB

Written 10 years after the publication of the first edition, this updated edition of Real-Time Environmental Monitoring: Sensors and Systems introduces the fundamentals of environmental monitoring based on electronic sensors, instruments, systems, and software that allow continuous and long-term ecological and environmental data collection. It accomplishes two objectives: explains how to use sensors for building more complex instruments, systems, and databases, and introduces a variety of sensors and systems employed to measure environmental variables in air, water, soils, vegetation canopies, and wildlife observation and tracking. This second edition is thoroughly updated in every aspect of technology and data, and each theoretical chapter is taught parallel with a hands-on application lab manual.

Computers and programming have become of paramount importance for environmental monitoring and are now part of sensor systems as embedded systems, dataloggers, and sensor networks. Working with computers in the field of monitoring requires knowledge of iterative calculation and measurement loops, serial communication, analog to digital and digital to analog conversion, networks, database management, and web applications. The Chapter 2 emphasizes single board computers (SBCs) and microcontrollers (MCUs), provides basic concepts of computer organization and architecture, and focuses on their application for environmental monitoring. For this purpose, we describe the Raspberry Pi and Arduino, and basic concepts of programming in Python, Arduino, Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP), Java Script (JS), and Structural Query Language (SQL). We will employ these devices and programming languages later in Chapters 3–6 when we study sensors, data acquisition, dataloggers, and sensor networks.

- Emphasizes real-time monitoring as an emerging area for environmental assessment and compliance and covers the fundamentals on how to develop sensors and systems.
- Presents several entirely new topics not featured in the first edition, including remote sensing and GIS, machine learning, weather radar and satellites, groundwater monitoring, spatial analysis, and habitat monitoring.
- Includes applications to many environmental and ecological systems.
- Uses a practical, hands-on approach with the addition of an accompanying lab manual, which students can use to deepen their understanding, based on the author’s 40 years of academic experience.

Intended for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, taking courses in civil and environmental engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, geosciences, and environmental sciences, as well as professionals working in environmental services, and researchers and academics in engineering.

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