Project Description-

• The wireless embedded networked sensing systems developed by CENS provide essential infrastructure for NSF-funded ecological observatories, including CLEANER and NEON, and in related technology transfer applications, such as precision agriculture and centers of active ecological research, where they will they will have a significant impact in addressing important state and national science objectives. Engineers, computer scientists, and biologists collaborate in the development and testing of a variety of wireless networked, durable, low-power, terrestrial and aquatic in-situ sensing systems. Such collaboration has resulted in the creation of systems suitable for monitoring a wide range of environmental, chemical, and organism patterns and processes above and below ground, at scales from microscopic to an entire watershed, and within a gradient of landscapes from urban to wildland. The center’s core field test bed, located at the University of California’s James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve, in collaboration with other CENS research teams, has successfully deployed several cutting edge, overlapping, multi-scale embedded sensor arrays, at fixed locations and on moveable robotic platforms.

Participating Institutions-
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Merced
University of Southern California
University of California, Riverside
James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve
California Institute of Technology

Online Information-
Center for Embedded Networked Sensing
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Funded by the
National Science Foundation