Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa, PhD, PEng
Cassidy Rankine, Gilberto Zonta-PastorelloCentre for Earth Observation Sciences (CEOS)
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department
University of Alberta
Microsoft WSN Workshop
Sao Paulo, Brazil
November 2010
What do we know?
•Well… Very little to start with (although 47% of the tropics are tdfs).
•Dry forests lag on long term studies aimed to understand their response to climate change. In fact, dry forest lag on a ratio of 1:300 scientific papers when compared with tropical rainforests.
•Ecological studies in dry forestes are systematic in two regions: Chamela-Cuixmala biosphere reserve, Mexico; and Santa Rosa National Park; Costa Rica.
•Tropical Forests are not considered part of any global networks aimed to link climate change observations and models to phenological response; nor are part of long term monitoring efforts.
•Tropical dry forests present well define phenological signals allowing for unique opportunities to evaluate their response to climate change and specially drought effects.
Enviro-Net Project
Seven Sites Argentina, Brazil (3),
Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico
36 Deployments 14 Wired Phenology Towers
logger & 4-8 sensors
12 Wired Ground Deployments
logger & 3-8 sensors
2 Wireless Phenology Towers
logger, node & 6 sensors
8 Wireless Ground Deployments
logger, 5-10 node, 15-50 sensors
Wireless Optical Phenology Systems (WOPS® )
5-10m above canopy (5-20m total height)
Physical Variables Measured: Air/soil temperature
Air/soil humidity
Solar Radiation
Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR)
Derived Variables: Vegetation Indexes
APAR, fAPAR
Vapour Pressure Deficit
Carbon and water fluxes
Wireless Ground
Deployments Nodes:
Current deployments (2007-2010): 5 – 20 nodes per deployment
Planned deployments (2011-2014): up to 100 nodes per deployment
WSN Understory PAR
• Understory light environment highly variable
• Networks of ~12 wireless PAR sensors capture this variable nature to better estimate FAPAR
Phenology tower
WSN Aggregator, Collector: PAR, T/RHWSN Collector: PAR, T/RH
Serra do Cipo, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Soil temperature station
CC4
MC6 MC8
IC7 ETCP
IC4
Phenology tower
Wireless sensor network (PAR, T/RH)
Understory meteorological station (rain, T/RH, PAR, Soil Moisture)
Understory Wireless sensor network PAR experiment
Phenology digital camera & logger
Mata Seca State Park, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Meteorological station
• Data management within Wireless
Sensor Networks (WSNs), e.g.,
algorithms for in-network query
processing
• Exploiting the (potential) synergy
between networking issues and
data management within WSNs,
e.g., logical topology and packet
scheduling oriented by query
semantics
• Indexing of spatio-temporal data
and time-series with a focus on
re-using sound and industrially
tested technologies, e.g., B+-trees
• Data mining, web data and social
network analysis
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Phenology Shifts
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Mata Seca, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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VPD has strong implications for plant physiology and is the earliest
micro-climatic cue for leaf flush at this site
Mata Seca, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Important implications for phenological remote sensing
Mata Seca, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Alberdo Shifts
This Year’s Leaf Flush in Chamela
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NDVI have a strong linear
relationship
Chamela, Mexico
Primary TDF
Mata Seca, Brazil
(Intermediate stage TDF)
Conclusion
• WSN for environmental monitoring are providing
important information on cues controlling phenological
processes in tropical dry forests.
• Not all dry forests follow the common “soil moisture”
model, other sites indicate less dependence on this
variable.
• New data analysis and visualization tools are necessary
to handle MASSIVE amounts of information specially on
real time transmissions.