SuomiNet Special Projects

SuomiNet Research: http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu/~iwabuchi/suominet/index.html

SuomiNet Caribbean Research: http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu/~iwabuchi/caribbean/index.html

Default Suominet operations are 30 second GPS tracking and 3 minute met records; but we provide higher-rate tracking up to 1hz for special projects. If the local suominet host university or organization can handle the increased bandwidth we can support requests for higher rate data from any of the suominet sites.

A recent example is SG06, the SUNY, Stony Brook suominet site, which was operated at 1 hz to allow it to serve as a base station for tracking an air-borne lidar survey over Sagamore Hills and Fire Island National Parks.

This survey was conducted in a research collaboration between USGS, NASA and the National Park Service (NPS), using NASA's Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL), developed by C. Wayne Wright at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA.