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Field Notes

<--2011-10-13 09:00:00 | 2011-10-26 08:30:00-->
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Vaira: 2011-10-18 08:30:00 (DOY 291)
Author: Joe Verfaillie
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Summary: Swapped LI7500, checked on Stardot camera, installed weather pod.

Vaira
2011-10-18

I arrived about 8:30PST. It was warm and clear with little to no wind. The ground is drier than last Thursday. The puddle near the gate is dry and the water hole still has water but less than last time. The new grass sprouts look a little stressed.

I swapped out Frank?s 7500 in favor of a freshly calibrated one on ours. 7500 sn 1594 went on.

I checked on the Stardot camera. It was running but its image was blurry. I moved the camera back from the enclosure window and was able to focus it at infinity. I also connected the weather pod with a jumper to make its adapter fit in the enclosure. I mounted the weather pod on the north end on the tower in a PCV weather shield.

The solar power box is full of wasps. It read 13.4V, 11.6A solar, 2.6A load.

Later I discovered that the Stardot camera is being fed from the data logger power and is causing a brown out overnight. Met data is only being recorded during the day.

Field Data

No tank data

No VR Well data found

No TZ Moisture Point data found

No VR Moisture Point data found

No TZ grass heigth found

No VR grass heigth found

Tree DBH

DateTag#Reading (mm)

No water potential data found

No VR Grass Biomass data found

No VR OakLeaves Biomass data found

No VR PineNeedles Biomass data found

0 photos found

Graphs display:
9 sets found

16 VR_met graphs found

Temperatures

System Power Voltage

Soil Temperatures Set 1

Soil Temperatures Set 2

Soil Temperature Set 3

Soil Temperature at -4cm

Soil Heat Flux

Soil Moisture

Photosynthetic Active Radiation

Short/Long Wave Radiation

LED sensor

Vaira PPT

Peltier SHF Plates

Peltier SHF Temperatures

LED NDVI

NDVI SRS Raw Data

2 VR_flux graphs found

CO2 Density

Sonic Wind

No data found for VR_soilco2.
No data found for VR_pond.
Can't check TZVR_mixed
No data found for VR_fd.
No data found for VR_processed.
No data found for VR_arable.
No data found for VR_soilvue.

 
 

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