• Matterhorn Hörnligrat 3500m a.s.l. • Multisensor field experiment • Seismometer (SM) • Accelerometer (AM) • Acoustic sensor (AS) • Crackmeter (CR) • Rock temperature • L1-DGPS (WGPS) • High-resolution camera • Weather station
• High data throughput: ~7 GB/day ~ 2.5 TB/year
Matterhorn, 4478 m
10 meters10 meters
ASlow AShigh
AMSMscarp
SMridge
CR02
CR20
CR06
WGPS
Wireless Sensor Network
Data Management and DB Architecture
From Field to Screen
• Demanding processing and storage requirements• Strongly heterogeneous data
Long-Term Storage
Raw Data(SM, AM, AS)
GSN Database
Event Database
Event Waveforms
Webcam Images
Data
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dynamic datareduction
eventparametrization
temporary
data retrieve
archive
convert/copy
• Web front-end• Multi-year content• Server-side pre-computed waveforms• Responsive interaction (zoom,pan,...) • Data statistics• Single event characterization • Spectrogram • Full-resolution waveform • Feature extraction
Visualization
Analysis
Continuous Data Visualization• Finding visual correlations and patterns• Identifying periods of strong activity
Event Characterization• Temporal dependencies• Feature clustering
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Manual Event Detection• Event/fieldwork labeling• Catalog for event classification
http://data.permasense.ch/
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Seismometer
Weather station
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4k
Time [days]
Time [days]
Time [s]
Time [days]
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Maximum Amplitude [V]
Acoustic Sensor
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What happened?
Precipitation?
Mountaineer?Frost cracking?
Data Storage
Data
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Large data quantities
Content-aware data reduction
Data Fusion
Data Processing
Big Data Analysis for Permafrost ResearchVisualization of heterogeneous data from always-on field experiments-
Matthias Meyer, Samuel Weber, Jan Beutel