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Instrumentation

  | installation | loggers | telemetry |        

Installing sensors

Drilling to install sensors at Derriwong in September 2003 (above) and Big Red in March 2004 (right)

 

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


Loggers

CSIRO micrologger after connection of sensors at Baleveolan

 

Paul Hutchinson programming a micrologger in the South Gipps West paddock, 30 March 2004

 

Lowering a micrologger into its housing in the West paddock at Vermont Hill, 01 April 2004


Telemetry

Antennae

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 surface.


base stations

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.