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A wireless sensor network deployment on a glacier in Iceland is described. The system uses power management as well as power harvesting to provide long-term environment sensing. Advances in base station and sensor node design as well as initial results are described.
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Martinez, K., Hart, J.K., Ong, R. (2009). Deploying a Wireless Sensor Network in Iceland. In: Trigoni, N., Markham, A., Nawaz, S. (eds) GeoSensor Networks. GSN 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5659. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02903-5_13
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