Cloud-based systems for monitoring earthquakes and other environmental quantities
Abstract
There are many advantages to using a cloud-based system to record and analyze environmental quantities such as earthquakes, radiation, various gases, dust and meteorological parameters. These advantages include robustness and dynamic scalability, and also reduced costs. In this paper, we present our experiences over the last three years in developing a cloud-based earthquake monitoring system (the Community Seismic Network). This network consists of over 600 sensors (accelerometers) in the S. California region that send data directly to the Google App Engine where they are analyzed. The system is capable of handing many other types of sensor data and generating a situation-awareness analysis as a product. Other advantages to the cloud-based system are integration with other peer networks, and being able to deploy anywhere in the world without have to build addition computing infrastructure.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2013
- Bibcode:
- 2013AGUFMIN51C..06C
- Keywords:
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- 1910 INFORMATICS Data assimilation;
- integration and fusion;
- 1972 INFORMATICS Sensor web;
- 7294 SEISMOLOGY Seismic instruments and networks;
- 4341 NATURAL HAZARDS Early warning systems