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Blog: WSL/SLF Lehning
WEEKYEAR16Mbits/s sustained 6km wifi link2009-08-10T00:00:00010 August 2009 read more 12Mbps 6km Wifi link2008-08-14T00:00:00014 August 2008 read more Working on papers2010-03-15T00:00:00015 March 2010 read more SwissEx press workshop held2009-10-21T00:00:00021 October 2009 read more SensorScope for Davos Vertical2010-01-31T00:00:00031 January 2010 read more New experiments added2011-08-27T00:00:00027 August 2011 read more Sensors changed to use latest metadata templates2010-03-28T00:00:00028 March 2010 read more GSN issues2010-03-02T00:00:0002 March 2010 read more IRKIS sensor testing has begun.2010-11-01T00:00:0001 November 2010 read more 3G Wireless Access Point2010-08-07T00:00:0007 August 2010 read more Tasks at SLF2011-11-23T00:00:00023 November 2011 read more Metadata changes2010-05-13T00:00:00013 May 2010 read more Wireless links update2011-02-21T00:00:00021 February 2011 read more First SensorScope v2.3 stations received for IRKIS2010-11-01T00:00:0001 November 2010 read more Wannengrat SensorScope deployment2009-10-14T00:00:00014 October 2009 read more Easy real-time plots using Googledocs2011-12-13T00:00:00013 December 2011 read more GeoNetwork2010-04-13T00:00:00013 April 2010 read more Basecamp 20092009-05-18T00:00:00018 May 2009 read more Data fusion2010-10-26T00:00:00026 October 2010 read more Publication entries2011-02-27T00:00:00027 February 2011 read more PERMOS demo2009-04-27T00:00:00027 April 2009 read more Wannengrat fieldsite meeting2011-06-01T00:00:0001 June 2011 read more GSN conference2010-05-30T00:00:00030 May 2010 read more Metadata changes2010-05-14T00:00:00014 May 2010 read more SwissEx on TV2009-08-17T00:00:00017 August 2009 read more Stillberg SensorScope installed2009-07-21T00:00:00021 July 2009 read more Timelines2010-03-22T00:00:00022 March 2010 read more Update on GSN VS configuration2011-05-27T00:00:00027 May 2011 http://www.swiss-experiment.ch/index.php/GSN:SensorConfigurer read more Blogs and website initiated2010-02-26T00:00:00026 February 2010 read more Fieldsite observations added2010-07-12T00:00:00012 July 2010 read more ISSW posters2009-09-25T00:00:00025 September 2009 read more All IMIS online2009-04-17T00:00:00017 April 2009 read more Biglink SensorScope installed2009-07-23T00:00:00023 July 2009 read more NOAA data in SensorMap?2009-04-14T00:00:00014 April 2009 read more Initial ALPS meeting2010-03-11T00:00:00011 March 2010 read more Assistance to EFLUM2010-05-30T00:00:00030 May 2010 read more Metadata updates2010-05-26T00:00:00026 May 2010 read more Project Management2010-04-13T00:00:00013 April 2010 read more Data mining tools2010-10-26T00:00:00026 October 2010 read more Integration of Mountland data2011-05-12T00:00:00012 May 2011 read more Wannengrat online2008-07-16T00:00:00016 July 2008 read more Front page2010-06-18T00:00:00018 June 2010 read more GSN email processing class2010-05-17T00:00:00017 May 2010 read more Nagios monitoring2009-03-16T00:00:00016 March 2009 read more WSL/SLF Jubilee2010-09-06T00:00:0006 September 2010 read more GSN XML examples2010-05-17T00:00:00017 May 2010 read more SwissEx workshop postponed2010-07-26T00:00:00026 July 2010 read more Press Workshop in Davos2009-10-09T00:00:0009 October 2009 read more Latest work at SLF2010-07-08T00:00:0008 July 2010 read more IMIS in GSN2009-01-16T00:00:00016 January 2009 read more Matlab and Labview scripts2010-03-11T00:00:00011 March 2010 read more Query GSN from Matlab2010-03-17T00:00:00017 March 2010 read more Metadata changes2010-03-30T00:00:00030 March 2010 read more IMIS queries improved2010-03-02T00:00:0002 March 2010 read more GSN conference2010-03-18T00:00:00018 March 2010 read more Biochange SensorScope installed2009-07-22T00:00:00022 July 2009 read more Sensor monitoring2009-04-14T00:00:00014 April 2009 read more Image field added to blog2010-07-19T00:00:00019 July 2010 read more R commands for querying GSN2010-06-11T00:00:00011 June 2010 read more Metadata user guide update2008-09-24T00:00:00024 September 2008 read more Reorganisation and addition of sections2011-04-11T00:00:00011 April 2011 read more Changes to metadata pages2010-04-13T00:00:00013 April 2010 read more Wannengrat SensorScope deployment removal2008-07-10T00:00:00010 July 2008 read more List of GSN instances2010-06-28T00:00:00028 June 2010 read more Biodiversity plugin2010-06-04T00:00:0004 June 2010 read more IDRC tour2010-06-01T00:00:0001 June 2010 read more Query GSN from LabVIEW2010-03-18T00:00:00018 March 2010 read more Wifi now attached to 3G2010-08-07T00:00:0007 August 2010 read more Montblanc server reworked2010-08-30T00:00:00030 August 2010 read more Wannengrat SensorScope deployment over2010-06-10T00:00:00010 June 2010 read more Holiday2010-04-13T00:00:00013 April 2010 read more Matlab function2010-03-02T00:00:0002 March 2010 read more Wiki metadata system update2011-03-09T00:00:0009 March 2011 read more Wifi link extension2010-03-15T00:00:00015 March 2010 read more Dischma transect deployed2009-08-17T00:00:00017 August 2009 read more 1000s of sensors online2009-04-01T00:00:0001 April 2009 read more Snowtweets2009-06-22T00:00:00022 June 2009 read more Winter deployment preparation2011-09-01T00:00:0001 September 2011 read more Centralised query interface2011-09-19T00:00:00019 September 2011 read more Data in the wiki2010-09-30T00:00:00030 September 2010 read more GSN IMIS complete2010-07-12T00:00:00012 July 2010 read more SLF news2010-08-30T00:00:00030 August 2010 read more Wannengrat runoff station2008-10-08T00:00:0008 October 2008 read more Funding investigations2010-04-13T00:00:00013 April 2010 read more WSL/SLF Jubilee celebrations2011-03-17T00:00:00017 March 2011 read more GSN description file configurer2011-05-12T00:00:00012 May 2011 http://www.swiss-experiment.ch/index.php/GSNdescriptionexample read more Swiss Distributed Computing Day2011-11-28T00:00:00028 November 2011 read more
| The latest on work carried out for SwissEx from WSL/SLF
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| Tasks at SLF
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A quick update on some of the tasks that I am currently trying to complete:
- Standardisation of the ontology;
- Integration of Mountland data;
- Integra
posted 23 November 2011; read more
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| Centralised query interface
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| A centralised GSN query interface is now available via the sensor metadata pages or the user home pages. This interface provides quick queries of data
posted 19 September 2011; read more
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| Winter deployment preparation
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| I am now preparing SensorScope stations for the winter deployments.
We will have:
- A continuation of the Pfynwald Mountland deployment of 11 stations.
posted 1 September 2011; read more
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| New experiments added
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| Weissfluhjoch drift experiment and Stillberg fertilisation experiment data/metadata added.
For all experiments, go to the SwissEx homepage and click
posted 27 August 2011; read more
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| Wannengrat fieldsite meeting
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| We held a successful multidisciplinary Wannengrat coordination meeting today. The users of Wannengrat now span: hydrology, snow physics, plant ecology
posted 1 June 2011; read more
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| Update on GSN VS configuration
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| We have made an few more configuring pages. These are still rudimentary, but provide an error free method of creating virtual sensors for GSN.
posted 27 May 2011; read more
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| Integration of Mountland data
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| We are now beginning to integrate all types of data (including manually sampled data) from Mountland Vaud. Within this integration period, we will als
posted 12 May 2011; read more
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| GSN description file configurer
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| We have been making initial steps towards an interface to provide the XML sensor description files for GSN over a simple, form based interface. The in
posted 12 May 2011; read more
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| Reorganisation and addition of sections
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| As you have probably noticed, we have been reorganising the menus again! This is part of a response to external input on how the pages should be organ
posted 11 April 2011; read more
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| WSL/SLF Jubilee celebrations
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| SwissEx and Hydrosys will be presented at the WSL/SLF Jubilee celebrations on Sunday 20th March, Bündawiese, Davos Dorf.
posted 17 March 2011; read more
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| Wiki metadata system update
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| I have been trawling the wiki metadata with a view to cleaning up the parameter values entered and making a more robust system. This system should gui
posted 9 March 2011; read more
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| Publication entries
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| I have just finished a new publications system. This is not meant to replace a professional publications system such as Web of Science, but it is mean
posted 27 February 2011; read more
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| Wireless links update
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| Two more wireless links have been installed to provide a weather independent downlink from the Wannengrat fieldsite (which will eventually also provid
posted 21 February 2011; read more
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| First SensorScope v2.3 stations received for IRKIS
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| The first SensorScope v2.3 stations have been received for the IRKIS soil moisture network project. These stations have a completely redesigned logger
posted 1 November 2010; read more
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| IRKIS sensor testing has begun.
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| Testing of the IRKIS sensors prior to deployment is currently being carried out in WSL/SLF's climate laboratory.
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posted 1 November 2010; read more
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| Data mining tools
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| We now have dynamic data mining tools for searching for data based on metadata, e.g. here. This tool shows all deplo
posted 26 October 2010; read more
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| Data fusion
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| Early data fusion results can be seen in the deployment record pages e.g. here. This shows fused data and metadata based on a q
posted 26 October 2010; read more
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| Data in the wiki
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| I am currently working on integrating data queries in the wiki. Contrary to the approach the other way round, this would allow us to query the data vi
posted 30 September 2010; read more
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| WSL/SLF Jubilee
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| SwissEx was presented to nearly 2000 people at the WSL/SLF Jubilee in Birmensdorf last weekend. This weekend, it will be presented again at the Jubile
posted 6 September 2010; read more
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| Montblanc server reworked
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| The montblanc server has been reworked to use the new (still experimental) user admin system. This has meant that all GSN instances from SLF have been
posted 30 August 2010; read more
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| SLF news
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| Congratulations to Michi and Betty on the arrival of their baby girl, Sophia. I have also got married.....that's why you haven't heard much from us!
posted 30 August 2010; read more
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| Wifi now attached to 3G
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| I have just finally managed to finish the wifi connection to 3G (this blog post is in fact written on my laptop connected to the router, which is conn
posted 7 August 2010; read more
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| 3G Wireless Access Point
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| Information on how to build your own low power 3G wireless access point has been added here
posted 7 August 2010; read more
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| SwissEx workshop postponed
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| The SwissEx workshop (28th July) is to be postponed until the end of August. Sorry for any inconvenience that this may cause.
posted 26 July 2010; read more
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| Image field added to blog
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| As requested on Thursday, I have added an image upload field to the blog.
posted 19 July 2010; read more
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| Fieldsite observations added
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| Following several requests, I have added an observations field to the Fieldsite metadata page, so that general photos and observations about the field
posted 12 July 2010; read more
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| GSN IMIS complete
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| An overhaul of the GSN IMIS system is now complete. 67 Million points are now stored in the Mont Blanc server.
posted 12 July 2010; read more
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| Latest work at SLF
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| Just an update of what has been going on at SLF:
We are currently organising 3 meetings. The GSN workshop tomorrow, the SwissEx meeting next week and
posted 8 July 2010; read more
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| Front page
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| I have put an animated gif on the front page for 'quick access people' to gain more of an appreciation of what is going on. If you wish to have anythi
posted 18 June 2010; read more
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| R commands for querying GSN
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| R commands for querying GSN added to the application data access page. This section will also be expanded as we work further on
posted 11 June 2010; read more
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| Wannengrat SensorScope deployment over
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| The Wannengrat winter SensorScope deployment has now been removed, leaving only 6 stations to measure ablation rate. The deployment was very successfu
posted 10 June 2010; read more
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| Biodiversity plugin
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| We have decided that the Web GIS type functionality of the Fieldsite database would be perfect for recording biodiversity. We are therefore developing
posted 4 June 2010; read more
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| GSN conference
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| A GSN developers conference will be held at SLF, Davos on July 9th. See here for details
ABSTRACTS REQUIRED BY 4th JUNE
posted 30 May 2010; read more
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| Assistance to EFLUM
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| I have spent the past few days assisting in the La Fouly SensorScope deployment and informing EPFL EFLUM users about the SwissEx infrastructure
posted 30 May 2010; read more
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| Metadata updates
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| I am continuing to add metadata.....now we have all the IMIS locations in, many observations and sensor deployments at Stillberg and I am continuing w
posted 26 May 2010; read more
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| GSN email processing class
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| Tim has completed a GSN email processing class to add to your virtual sensors. It emails when a specified condition is met. I have just tested it and
posted 17 May 2010; read more
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| Metadata changes
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| Finally completed the multiple parameter fields in the metadata. You should now be able to add sensors with multiple parameters (comma delimited list)
posted 14 May 2010; read more
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| Metadata changes
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| Back from my trip, I have been entering Sensorscope metadata. I have just added an image field to the Sensor Deployment template and form.....please t
posted 13 May 2010; read more
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| Project Management
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posted 13 April 2010; read more
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| Changes to metadata pages
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Currently making some major changes to the workings of the metadata wiki. The advantages will be:
- Uploadable photos, automatically referenced from wi
posted 13 April 2010; read more
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| Funding investigations
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| Climate KIC and EU funding investigations continue.
posted 13 April 2010; read more
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| GeoNetwork
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| WSL and many other institutes in Switzerland are now using GeoNetwork to store a database of database URLs and files. I will be working with the WSL r
posted 13 April 2010; read more
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| Holiday
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| I will be on holiday for the next 2 weeks and working from Boston for a 3rd week.
posted 13 April 2010; read more
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| Metadata changes
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| Andy and I changed the queries in the tables for the metadata pages to be category dependent and not namespace dependent. These categories are also dy
posted 30 March 2010; read more
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| Sensors changed to use latest metadata templates
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| All SLF sensors changed to use the latest wiki templates.......that took a while - can we please not change them again! Also changed the templates aro
posted 28 March 2010; read more
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| Timelines
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| Thanks to Ioannis for fixing the timeline (which has been broken for over a year). I have now changed the queries in the metadata to use it, which I b
posted 22 March 2010; read more
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| Query GSN from LabVIEW
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| LabVIEW tools to query GSN released. See Data Access Tools for beta versions of LabVIEW tools to retrieve data f
posted 18 March 2010; read more
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| Query GSN from Matlab
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| MATLAB tools to query GSN released. See Data Access Tools for beta versions of MATLAB tools to retrieve data fro
posted 17 March 2010; read more
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| Wifi link extension
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| In the process of adding a 4th hop into the radar wifi system to bring high data rate data back from Wannengrat to SLF.
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posted 15 March 2010; read more
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| Working on papers
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| Working on Hoyoung and Guillermo's papers this week.
posted 15 March 2010; read more
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| Initial ALPS meeting
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| Initial ALPS meeting held at SLF, where the proposed structure and call were discussed. This project will have many similarities with SwissEx.
posted 11 March 2010; read more
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| Matlab and Labview scripts
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| Matlab and Labview scripts now available for querying GSN from within the package. I will make some final changes, then post these on the wiki. We wil
posted 11 March 2010; read more
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| Matlab function
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| Almost there with a Matlab function to read GSN data. The next step will be LabVIEW which I should be able to do pretty quickly.
posted 2 March 2010; read more
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| IMIS queries improved
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| IMIS data queries through SensorMap now running better after a new IMIS server was installed.
posted 2 March 2010; read more
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| GSN issues
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| GSN recovered from downtime this weekend and now continuing to fill gaps in the GSN database where SensorScope data was missed and to put the GAUDEX d
posted 2 March 2010; read more
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| Blogs and website initiated
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| Blogs and website initiated
posted 26 February 2010; read more
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| SensorScope for Davos Vertical
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| SensorScope and SLF supported Davos Vertical skitour race with data from SensorScope stations as part of the public out
posted 31 January 2010; read more
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| Wannengrat SensorScope deployment
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| First SensorScope stations deployed on Wannengrat
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| Press Workshop in Davos
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| Press event to be held in Davos on the 21st/22nd October, featuring field trips to the sites of this winter's multi/inter-disciplinary experiments in
posted 9 October 2009; read more
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| ISSW posters
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| ISSW posters.
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| SwissEx on TV
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| Nick and Vanessa (SLF) filmed in a 'SensorScope installation' setting for programme intros on SF1/TVR from November.
posted 17 August 2009; read more
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| Dischma transect deployed
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| Dischma transect completed using Sensorscope stations. Some of these stations are communicating from one side of the valley to the other. These statio
posted 17 August 2009; read more
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| 16Mbits/s sustained 6km wifi link
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| Wifi working continuously from SLF to Jakobshorn at rates of 12Mbits/s (produced using Hydrosys funding).
posted 10 August 2009; read more
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| Snowtweets
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| External news: Get involved in the SnowTweets project
posted 22 June 2009; read more
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| PERMOS demo
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| 4 PERMOS boreholes added to GSN and SensorMap as a demo.
posted 27 April 2009; read more
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| All IMIS online
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| All 240 IMIS/ENET stations now in SensorMap
posted 17 April 2009; read more
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| Sensor monitoring
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| Test of GSN alerts (when stations do not transmit data) on Wannengrat successful. This will now be deployed on all SLF sensors
posted 14 April 2009; read more
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| NOAA data in SensorMap?
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| In talks with the Russian Academy of Science (fellow Microsoft Research collaborators) about the provision of NOAA NCEP/NCAR, NCDC and SPIDR data over
posted 14 April 2009; read more
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| 1000s of sensors online
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| 200+ sensor positions (1000s of sensors) from SLF now available (to SwissEx users or others on application) via SensorMap. Please register as a user o
posted 1 April 2009; read more
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| IMIS in GSN
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| IMIS and ENET stations integrated into GSN for online access (restricted). Image to follow.
posted 16 January 2009; read more
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| Wannengrat runoff station
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| Construction of the runoff station at Wannengrat has begun.
posted 8 October 2008; read more
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| Metadata user guide update
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| Metadata user guide updated
posted 24 September 2008; read more
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| Wannengrat online
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| The full history of data from the Wannengrat stations is currently being loaded into the SwissEx database.
posted 16 July 2008; read more
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| Wannengrat SensorScope deployment removal
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| Wannengrat SensorScope deployment to be removed next week when the cows are 'deployed'.
posted 10 July 2008; read more
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