Supplemental data acquisition tools for modeling environmental systems

• Steidley, Carl W. ^[1] ; Bachnak, Rafic ^[1] ; Sadovski, Alexey ^[1]
  1. [1] Texas A& M University, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
• Localización: Revista de Matemática: Teoría y Aplicaciones, ISSN 2215-3373, ISSN-e 2215-3373, Vol. 12, Nº. 1-2, 2005, págs. 13-28
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.15517/rmta.v12i1-2.247
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  • español

    El objetivo de nuestra investigaci´on es desarrollar herramientas eficaces y confiablespara modelar los sistemas ambientales en el Golfo de M´exico. Por ejemplo, nuestrainvestigaci’on actual en metodolog´?as para la predicci´on del nivel del agua en las aguas pocoprofundas de las bah´?as y estuarios a lo largo de la costa del Golfo de Texas. Nuestro enfoque de modelaci´on est´a basado en datos obtenidos en tiempo real por la Redde Observaci´on Oce´anica de la Costa de Texas (TCOON, por sus siglas en ingl´es).TCOON es manejado por la Divisi´on de Investigaci´on de la Ribera (DNR, por sussiglas en ingl´es) en cooperaci´on con el Departamento de Ciencias de la Computaci´ony Matem´aticas (CAMS), ambos de la Universidad Texas A & M en Corpus Christi.TCOON consiste en una50 estaciones para la recopilaci´on de datos localizadas a loslargo de la costa del Golfo de Texas, desde las fronteras con Luisiana y M´exico.Adem´as de una corta descripci´on de nuestro principal sistema de adquisici´on dedatos para nuestros esfuerzos de investigaci´on, este art´?culo presenta aspectos de dise˜noy desarrollo, as´? como resultados de pruebas hechas en la producci´on de dos sistemasadicionales de adquisici´on de datos, as´? como varios de nuestros esfuerzos de modelaci´on en la Universidad de Texas A& M en Corpus Christi.Palabras clave: Adquisici´on de datos, modelaci´on ambiental, rob´otica.

  • English

    The goal of our on-going research is to develop effective and reliable tools formodeling the environmental systems of the Gulf of Mexico. For example, our on-goingresearch into methodologies for the prediction of water levels in the shallow watersof the bays and estuaries along the Texas Gulf coast. Our modeling approaches arebased on the real-time data collected by the Texas Coastal Ocean Observation Network(TCOON). TCOON is managed by the Division of Nearshore Research (DNR) incooperation with the Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences (CAMS)both of Texas A& M University-Corpus Christi. TCOON consists of approximately50 data gathering stations located along the Texas Gulf coast from the Louisiana toMexico borders.In addition to a short description of our major data acquisition system for ourresearch efforts, this paper presents design issues, development issues, and test resultsencountered in the production of two supplemental data acquisition systems as wellas several of our environmental systems modeling efforts at Texas A&M UniversityCorpus Christi.Keywords: Data acquisition, environmental modeling, robotics.

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