Orpheus Island Deployments of the Facility for the Automated Intelligent Monitoring of Marine Systems - FAIMMS

Sensor network infrastructure was installed at Orpheus Island in the central Great Barrier Reef just north of Townsville, Australia. The infrastructure consists of a base station located on an existing mast at the Orpheus Island Research Station run by James Cook University, two sensor-floats or buoys - one located in Pioneer Bay off the Research Station and one in Little Pioneer Bay and three Relay / Sensor Poles - two located on the reef flat on the north-west point of Orpheus Island and one located on the southern point of near-by Pelorus Island.The experimental design is to measure the intrusion of oceanic water onto the ocean (western) side of the island and through the channel that separates Orpheus and Pelorus Islands and secondly to monitor water temperatures and water parameters in the bays around the research station. The deployment in August 2009 consists of a base station at the Research Station that use the nextG network to get the data back to AIMS and using the Campbell Scientific RF411 radios to create the on water wireless network. The base station talks directly with the two sensor floats, one in Pioneer Bay and the other in Little Pioneer Bay. Each float has a surface mounted thermistor and a bottom mounted SeaBird SBE39 that gives temperature and pressure (depth). This gives depth and surface and bottom temperature for the two locations.The three Relay-Poles were installed in August 2009 with no instruments, these will be added in October / November 2009. The design has the two poles on the Orpheus Island reef flat having sensor strings that go across the reef flat, down the reef slope into the deeper waters with deep temperature and salinity sensors and shallower temperature sensors to give a profile of temperature and measurements of temperature and salinity for the deeper water as it flows onto the reef and through the channel.The pole on Pelorus Island will act as a base station relaying the data from the other poles back to the mainland via a nextG modem. One of the poles will also have a Vaisala WXT520 weather station mounted on it. The project looks to deploy sensor networks at seven sites along the Great Barrier Reef to measure a range of physical parameters at a range of scales. The project will install communications, data and platform infrastructure that will support future sensor work looking at biological and chemical parameters. The FAIMMS Project is part of the GBROOS or Great Barrier Reef Ocean Observing System project which in turn is part of the Australian Integrated Marine Observing System or IMOS.

传感器网络基础设施已部署于澳大利亚汤斯维尔以北、大堡礁中部的奥菲斯岛。该基础设施包含一个基站（位于詹姆斯·库克大学运营的奥菲斯岛研究站现有桅杆上）、两个传感器浮标（分别位于研究站外的先锋湾和小先锋湾），以及三个中继/传感器杆（两个位于奥菲斯岛西北端的礁坪上，一个位于邻近佩洛鲁斯岛的南端）。

实验设计旨在测量海水向岛屿西侧（海洋侧）及奥菲斯岛与佩洛鲁斯岛之间海峡的入侵情况，其次监测研究站周边海湾的水温及水体参数。2009年8月的部署包括研究站内的一个基站，该基站通过nextG网络将数据传回AIMS，并利用Campbell Scientific RF411无线电构建水上无线网络。基站直接与两个传感器浮标通信，浮标分别位于先锋湾和小先锋湾。每个浮标配备表面热敏电阻及底部SeaBird SBE39传感器，可测量温度与压力（深度），从而获取两个位置的水深、表层及底层水温数据。

三个中继/传感器杆于2009年8月安装时未配备仪器，相关仪器将于2009年10-11月加装。设计中，奥菲斯岛礁坪上的两个杆将搭载传感器串，这些传感器串横跨礁坪，沿礁坡延伸至深水区，配备深水温度、盐度传感器及浅水温度传感器，以获取温度剖面数据，并测量流入礁区及海峡的深水区水温与盐度。佩洛鲁斯岛上的杆将作为基站，通过nextG调制解调器将其他杆的数据中继至大陆。其中一个杆还将搭载Vaisala WXT520气象站。

该项目计划在大堡礁沿线七个站点部署传感器网络，以多尺度测量一系列物理参数。项目将安装通信、数据及平台基础设施，为未来针对生物与化学参数的传感器研究提供支持。

FAIMMS项目隶属于GBROOS（大堡礁海洋观测系统），而GBROOS本身又是澳大利亚综合海洋观测系统（IMOS）的组成部分。