Electronic Automated Systems

Photographs of arctic weather monitoring installations


Arctic Weather Station:

Weather monitoring tower at 74north, 120 west: Banks Island
Summer installation of an Arctic weather station at 74 degrees north latitude, 120 degrees west longtitude: northern tip of Banks Island, Canadian Arctic.

This installation is typical of two configurations:
Climate monitoring with yearly site visits to retreive stored data,
Active weather monitoring with radio uplink reporting.

Ice Beacon


Ice Beacon mounted into an ice flow
Winter deployment of a battery powered/solar recharged ice beacon complete with:
GPS for ice movement monitoring,
Temperature sensors,
Pressure sensors,
Antenna for radio uplink,
Solar cells for battery recharging,
Battery packs for prolonged dark periods.

When the earth's rotational axis and orbital postion combine to permit solar rays to reach into the high arctic (sun above the horizon) the batteries are recharged. Life of these stations depends upon ice flow movement: common lives are 4 to 5 years before falling through the ice.

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last update February 5,1997