Installing a Sensor Control Tower in a Rice Field (IMAGE)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Installing a Sensor Control Tower in a Rice Field

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Rebecca Neumann (in green hat) works with graduate students from the Harvey Lab, technicians from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and local people to install a 20-foot tower in a rice field near Bashailbhog village in Bangladesh. The tower housed a datalogger and battery that powered, controlled and recorded data collected hourly by 18 hydrologic sensors installed at a range of depths below the rice field surface. The tower, red cage and waterproof box were necessary to keep the equipment above the annual monsoon floods, which may be as deep as 15 feet. Neumann periodically climbed the tower carrying a laptop computer to download data off of the datalogger.

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Photo / Charles Harvey, MIT

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