| August 2012 - Guoliang Xing, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, along with WenZhan Song from Georgia State University, Jonathan Lees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Mario Ruiz from the Ecuadorian Geophysical Institute were featured in an article of El Comercia, one of the largest newspapers in Ecuador. The article is titled "Volcan Tungurahua tendra 500 estaciones" (Tungurahua volcano will have 500 stations). Supported by the NSF, their research involves the development of low cost seismic monitoring stations and computation of volcano tomography. By deploying a large number of these portable stations it will be possible to reveal the internal structure of the volcano. "This is an intriguing research project. It must incorporate elements from signal processing, to mesh networks, to distributed algorithms into a small package that can reliably operate unattended for several months at a time" said Dr. Xing.
The recent trip to the Tungurahua Volcano located near Banos Ecuador provided an opportunity to test the prototype monitoring stations under actual field conditions. It also gave the researchers firsthand knowledge of the issues that will be faced when deploying 500 stations around the entire volcano. The prototype monitoring stations deployed during this field study were developed by Dr. Xing, his postdoc Dr. Rui Tan, and Ph.D students Mohammad-Mahdi Moazzami and Dennis Philips in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University. The article can be found at http://www.elcomercio.com/pais/Volcan-Tungurahua-estaciones_0_740925972.html, and an English translation of the article is available at http://www.cse.msu.edu/~glxing/docs/Ecuador-news.pdf. |
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