Electronic thermal sensor and Landsat data collection platform technology

Duane M. Preble; Jules D. Friedman; David Frank

doi:10.3133/ofr7787

Electronic thermal sensor and Landsat data collection platform technology

Open-File Report 77-87

By: Duane M. Preble, Jules D. Friedman, and David Frank

https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr7787

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Electronic thermal sensor and Data Collection Platform technology: Part 5 in <i>Thermal surveillance of active volcanoes using the Landsat-1 Data Collection System</i>(1976)

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Abstract

Five Data Collection Platforms (DCP) were integrated electronically with thermal sensing systems, emplaced and operated in an analog mode at selected thermally significant volcanic and geothermal sites. The DCP's transmitted 3260 messages comprising 26,080 ambient, surface, and near-surface temperature records at an accuracy of ±1.15°C for 1121 instrument days between November 14, 1972 and April 17, 1974. In harsh, windy, high-altitude volcanic environments the DCP functioned best with a small dipole antenna. Sixteen kg of alkaline batteries provided a viable power supply for the DCP systems, operated at a low-duty cycle, for 5 to 8 months. A proposed solar power supply system would lengthen the period of unattended operation of the system considerably. Special methods of data handling such as data storage via a proposed memory system would increase the significance of the twice-daily data reception enabling the DCP's to record full diurnal-temperature cycles at volcanic or geothermal sites.

Refinements in the temperature-monitoring system designed and operated in experiment SR 251 included a backup system consisting of a multipoint temperature scanner, a servo mechanism and an analog-to-digital recorder. Improvements were made in temperature-probe design and in construction of corrosion-resistant seals by use of a hydrofluoric-acid-etching technique.

Additional publication details
Publication type	Report
Publication Subtype	USGS Numbered Series
Title	Electronic thermal sensor and Landsat data collection platform technology
Series title	Open-File Report
Series number	77-87
DOI	10.3133/ofr7787
Year Published	1977
Language	English
Publisher	U.S. Geological Survey
Description	64 p.
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