OTHER RECOMMEDATIONS 13 Three Tiered Sensor Array for Land Atmosphere Research Network Nodes Long Range Interface Increasing Spatial Resolution Low bandwidth Bi Directional Communications within and cross tier Increasing Spatial Coverage High bandwidth Collective and Local Processing per node within array tier and hierarchical Mesoscale Range Peer Peer Arrays Microscale Range Peer Peer Arrays Progressive Event Recognition and Response autonomous and command driven environmental or operational conditions dynamic configurability and reporting Progressive Data Processing and Storage priority based retention and distillation 12 Proposed Sensor Array Configuration for Land Atmosphere Research Wireless Microscale Motes Node Hopping using 10 meter or less RF range Network Network Nodes Node Hopping range is infinite Wireless Mesoscale Nodes Node Hopping using 10 meters to 10 kilometers RF range Data from Microscale and Mesoscale Nodes are transmitted to a Base Station Communication occurs bi directionally to enable coordinated or manual control P T H Micro Sensors of Nighttime Advective Flow Detection down Niwot Ridge will assist us in placing our CO2 concentration sensors 17 Front View Mote Deployment Side View Mote Deployment Automatic Scaling of Plume using intelligent scheme such as Fuzzy Logic coupled with Directed Diffusion to determine Data Rate and correlation of complementing sensors Proposed Network Link of towers to cover landscape with micro local and regional scale sensors in three tiered hierarchy 19 18 CO2 Measurements from three scales 3 2 2 1 2 2 1 Micro Photosynthetic Measurements of tree canopy Sap flow and PAR Sensors 2 CO2 Concentrations correlated with MET parameters on mesoscale level 3 CO2 flux correlations
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