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Heron Island Automated Marine Weather And Oceanographic Station
Sensor network infrastructure was installed at Heron Island in the southern Great Barrier Reef off Gladstone, Australia. The infrastructure consists of a base station mounted on the existing communications tower, a number of network relay poles installed in the lagoon and a number of buoys which carry the actual sensors.
The initial design is to monitor the flow of water through the lagoon which is often 'ponded' due to the high coral rim to the lagoon, this creates complex in and out flows and flushing of the lagoon system.
The deployment in August 2008 consisted of the base station using the Telstra nextG service, six 6m relay poles located in the lagoon and five sensor floats also located in the lagoon. The poles carry one bottom thermistor, the floats currently have surface thermistors only. Additional instrumentation will be added by the end of 2008.
The project looks to deploy sensor networks at seven sites along the Great Barrier Reef to measure a range of physical parameters at a range of scales. The project will install communications, data and platform infrastructure that will support future sensor work looking at biological and chemical parameters.
This project is part of the Wireless Sensor Networks Facility (formerly known as Facility for The Automated Intelligent Monitoring of Marine Systems (FAIMMS)), part of the Great Barrier Reef Ocean Observing System project (GBROOS) (IMOS)
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- Date (Revision)
- 2024-10-17T00:00:00
Publisher
Owner
- Website
- AIMS Web Site
- Website
- AIMS Web Site
- Credit
- Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) is enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). It is operated by a consortium of institutions as an unincorporated joint venture, with the University of Tasmania as Lead Agent.
- Credit
- Wireless Sensor Networks Facility, part of the Great Barrier Reef Ocean Observing System project (GBROOS) (IMOS)
- Credit
- Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)
- Status
- On going
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- Oceans
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- Description
- Region 1
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- Description
- Collective resources start and end dates
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- Time position
- 2007-08-13
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Continual
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- Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
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- Other constraints
- Use Limitation: All AIMS data, products and services are provided "as is" and AIMS does not warrant their fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. While AIMS has made every reasonable effort to ensure high quality of the data, products and services, to the extent permitted by law the data, products and services are provided without any warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of title, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. AIMS make no representation or warranty that the data, products and services are accurate, complete, reliable or current. To the extent permitted by law, AIMS exclude all liability to any person arising directly or indirectly from the use of the data, products and services.
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- Attribution: Format for citation of metadata sourced from Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) in a list of reference is as follows: "Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS). (2020). Northern Australia Automated Marine Weather and Oceanographic Stations, Sites: [Heron Island]. https://doi.org/10.25845/5c09bf93f315d, accessed[date-of-access]".
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Content Information
- Content type
- Physical measurement
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Marine Weather Observations for Heron Island
Marine Weather Observations for Heron Island
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Data access via AODN Portal
Data access via AODN Portal
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Data access via Programming API
Data access via Programming API
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Data access using R
Data access using R
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Statement: All sensors are factory calibrated and serviced every six months.Statement: Data are checked against a set of rules and then flagged using the IODE set of flags.
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- Dataset
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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- Metadata identifier
- aefce70d-0ca2-494a-a8f9-47499e2c7f6e
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
- Hours of service
- 0800 to 1640 UTC+10: Monday to Friday
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- Resource scope
- Dataset
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Point of truth URL of this metadata record
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2017-01-24T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2024-02-15T00:00:00
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
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