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Photo Gallery
Installing sensors
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Drilling to
install sensors at Derriwong in
September 2003 (above)
and Big Red in March 2004 (right) |
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Aimee Walker and Warren Bond
trenching between the sensors (left)
and the logger housing (right) in
the East paddock at "Big Red", 31
March 2004 |
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Loggers
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CSIRO
micrologger after connection of
sensors at Baleveolan |
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Paul Hutchinson
programming a micrologger in the
South Gipps West paddock, 30 March
2004 |
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Lowering a micrologger into its
housing in the West paddock at
Vermont Hill, 01 April 2004 |
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Telemetry
Antennae

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Above: Logger
antennae in the West paddock at
Derriwong
Right: Paul
Hutchinson with a close-up of an
antenna. The loggers sit immediately
below the antennae, at a depth of
200 to 300 mm below the soil
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base stations
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Michelle Taylor
and Paul Hutchinson installing pc-EPhone
base station at Derriwong. This
receives the radio transmissions
from the loggers in the paddock,
stores them, and sends them to a
CSIRO computer via the in-built cdma
mobile phone. |
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