Mobile Infrastructure for Monitoring, Modeling, and Forecasting of Coastal Weather Events. Phase I: Building the Smart Drifter

• 作者: Jason O. Hallstrom Jiannan Zhai Len Pietrafesa Paul Gayes Shaowu Bao
• 来源期刊: 电脑和通信(英文)
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: SURGE MONITORING SMART DRIFTER
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（7）
• 页码范围: 85-94
• 页数: 10页
• 分类号: R73

摘要

Our goal is to address a critical need to improve monitoring and forecasting of storm-induced coastal flooding (i.e., storm surge). The fundamental element of our approach is a new class of smart drifter—low-cost, rapidly deployable sensors used to collect surge information in advance of, during, and following significant weather events. These devices, each a bit larger than a tennis ball, will be deployed in advance of oncoming storms. The devices will log surge information used for post processing. In this paper, we present the Phase I of the project: the design and development of the smart drifter.