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A geophone wireless sensor network for investigating glacier stick-slip motion

A geophone wireless sensor network for investigating glacier stick-slip motion
A geophone wireless sensor network for investigating glacier stick-slip motion
We have developed an innovative passive borehole geophone system, as part of a wireless environmental sensor network to investigate glacier stick-slip motion. The new geophone nodes use an ARM Cortex-M3 processor with a low power design capable of running on battery power while embedded in the ice. Only data from seismic events was stored, held temporarily on a micro-SD card until they were retrieved by systems on the glacier surface which are connected to the internet. The sampling rates, detection and filtering levels were determined from a field trial using a standard commercial passive seismic system. The new system was installed on the Skalafellsjökull glacier in Iceland and provided encouraging results. The results showed that there was a relationship between surface melt water production and seismic event (ice quakes), and these occurred on a pattern related to the glacier surface melt-water controlled velocity changes (stick-slip motion). Three types of seismic events were identified, which were interpreted to reflect a pattern of till deformation (Type A), basal sliding (Type B) and hydraulic transience (Type C) associated with stick-slip motion.
Environmental sensor network, Glacier velocity, Geophones
0098-3004
103-112
Martinez, Kirk
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Hart, Jane K.
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Basford, Philip J.
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Bragg, Graeme
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Martinez, Kirk, Hart, Jane K., Basford, Philip J., Bragg, Graeme, Ward, Tyler and Young, David S. (2017) A geophone wireless sensor network for investigating glacier stick-slip motion. Computers & Geosciences, 105, 103-112. (doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2017.05.005).

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We have developed an innovative passive borehole geophone system, as part of a wireless environmental sensor network to investigate glacier stick-slip motion. The new geophone nodes use an ARM Cortex-M3 processor with a low power design capable of running on battery power while embedded in the ice. Only data from seismic events was stored, held temporarily on a micro-SD card until they were retrieved by systems on the glacier surface which are connected to the internet. The sampling rates, detection and filtering levels were determined from a field trial using a standard commercial passive seismic system. The new system was installed on the Skalafellsjökull glacier in Iceland and provided encouraging results. The results showed that there was a relationship between surface melt water production and seismic event (ice quakes), and these occurred on a pattern related to the glacier surface melt-water controlled velocity changes (stick-slip motion). Three types of seismic events were identified, which were interpreted to reflect a pattern of till deformation (Type A), basal sliding (Type B) and hydraulic transience (Type C) associated with stick-slip motion.

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Accepted/In Press date: 8 May 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 10 May 2017
Published date: August 2017
Keywords: Environmental sensor network, Glacier velocity, Geophones

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Local EPrints ID: 412213
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/412213
ISSN: 0098-3004
PURE UUID: 46407995-d18d-4123-a7aa-a82e974d0ebb
ORCID for Kirk Martinez: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3859-5700
ORCID for Jane K. Hart: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2348-3944
ORCID for Philip J. Basford: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6058-8270
ORCID for Graeme Bragg: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5201-7977

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Date deposited: 13 Jul 2017 16:32
Last modified: 06 Jun 2024 01:59

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Author: Kirk Martinez ORCID iD
Author: Jane K. Hart ORCID iD
Author: Graeme Bragg ORCID iD
Author: Tyler Ward
Author: David S. Young

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