Wireless sensor networks and analytics as emerging tools for a paradigm shift on environmental monitoring.
Abstract
This paper evaluates the evolution of scientific paradigms in the context of environmental monitoring, presents the concept of wireless sensor networks as new emerging tool for environmental monitoring, develops the analytic methods to support such monitoring, and closes with some final remarks on how they can be considered for the monitoring of the effects of climate change on biodiversity in the years to come. The implementation of this approach at the Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica and the Parque Estadual de Mata Seca, Minas Gerais, Brazil are the first step on bringing the 4th paradigm of science in the context of data analytics to analysis of real time impacts of climate change in tropical dry forest environments, which we currently have under early operation.