Autonomous Sub-Glacial Probes

GLACSWEB! - follow-on project - follow this link for up to date information

Aims

To make new autonomous sub-glacial probes for glaciology research. This involves the design of small probes containing sensors and transponders which will be placed inside and under a glacier. They will be monitored over a year by a base station, which will collect the measurements, measure the probe positions and transmit that to a web server in the UK. This is a challenging project involving the dept. of Electronics and Computer Science as well as the Geography Department. This will be the first time such probes have been produced as previous systems were wired-in.

Research

• Low power sensor probe design
• accurate position sensing of probes
• power management and adaptive control
• analysis of the results
• Our site is Briksdalsbreen in Norway.

Documents - from original project

• Presentation  (powerpoint version)
• Specification
• Kirk testing phone on glacier
• View down glacier.
• Pressure testing in Oceanography. pic2 pic3
• Base station frame under construction.
• All the PCBs.
• Our reference station in Melkevoll. and  where we stay

Links

• Glacsweb - our follow-on project
• Jane Hart’s pages
• Iceland expedition photos
• Persephone appears in Greek mythology. Daughter of Zeus, she became queen of the underworld.

 

 

was funded by the Paul Instrument Fund of the Royal Society - Glacsweb funded by the UK Department of Trade and Industry.

Photography copyright Kirk Martinez 2002,3.