TITLE:
Mobile Infrastructure for Monitoring, Modeling, and Forecasting of Coastal Weather Events. Phase I: Building the Smart Drifter
AUTHORS:
Jiannan Zhai, Jason O. Hallstrom, Shaowu Bao, Paul Gayes, Len Pietrafesa
KEYWORDS:
Surge Monitoring, Smart Drifter
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Computer and Communications,
Vol.7 No.7,
July
10,
2019
ABSTRACT: Our goal is to address a critical need to improve monitoring and forecasting of storm-induced coastal flooding (i.e., storm surge). The fundamental element of our approach is a new class of smart drifter—low-cost, rapidly deployable sensors used to collect surge information in advance of, during, and following significant weather events. These devices, each a bit larger than a tennis ball, will be deployed in advance of oncoming storms. The devices will log surge information used for post processing. In this paper, we present the Phase I of the project: the design and development of the smart drifter.