data gathering in wireless sensor networks.

In [2] a protocol is described which allows for motes to increase their sampling in response to events such as rain, or to reduce sampling to conserve resources during periods of little change. In [3] the problem of using a base station to detect rainfall events and broadcast a signal setting the motes into a higher sampling rate is noted. Dynamic setting of sensor behaviour in reaction to environmental changes is described in [1], using sparsely sampled data at static sensors to facilitate more frequent spatial sampling and rapid reaction by mobile sensors. Use of correlations between sensed environmental variables at spatially distributed sensor nodes is discussed in [5]