SEAMONSTER: A wireless Sensor Web prototype applied to studying glaciated watersheds (Invited)

The SouthEast Alaska MOnitoring Network for Science, Technology, Education and Research (SEAMONSTER) Sensor Web is operating in partially glaciated watersheds o n the margin of the Juneau Ice Field. Data from distributed, heterogeneous sensors with irregular sampling rates is int egrated in a PostGIS (PostgreSQL with GIS extensions) database. Dat a discovery, data browsing, the sensor web operation and management, and education and publication are facilitated by t he integration of the PostGIS database and Geoserver to delive r dynamically generated geospatial output. This presentati on will focus on the technology developed to operate the SEAMONSTER sensor web and lessons learned regarding sensing the data us ing networking both internal and external to the sensor web. We will present examples of data fusion, modeling and reanalysis of the data using Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards, and present lessons learned from the project.