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FIELD PROJECTS
Make your watch a research instrument.
Want to integrate Bob Environmental into your research or classroom? Here are fourteen research grade investigations for scientists or students. Each project requires students to design a sampling scheme, solve a deployment problem, and analyze real environmental data.
14 Projects
Cycling Route Quality Classifier
Map surface quality and pavement roughness across a city's bike network.
Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Compass, GPS
Cat Tracker
Where does your outdoor cat go during the day? And what is it doing?
GPS, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Compass, Barometer
Stream Gauge & Watershed Hydrology
Build a low-cost stream gauge with the submerged pressure sensor and estimate discharge.
Water Temperature, Depth, GPS
Tidal Flat Inundation Monitor
Reconstruct a local tide curve from the submerged pressure sensor.
Depth, Water Temperature, GPS
Inertial Navigation & Dead Reckoning
Track trajectories on land or underwater only using only motion sensors.
Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Compass, GPS
Pedestrian Surface Quality Classifier
Train a machine learing model to rate sidewalk quality from wrist-worn accelerometer data.
Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Compass, GPS
Sediment Transport Proxy
Detect when saltation events occur in streams by attaching your watch to a cobble.
Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Compass, Depth
Atmospheric Pressure & Weather Patterns
Detect and measure pressure gradients due to fronts and changing weather conditions.
Barometer, GPS
Nearshore Water Quality Survey
Map the vertical and horizontal structure of water temperature across a beach, bay, or estuary.
Water Temperature, Depth, GPS
Smartwatch Wave Buoy
Measure wave height, period, and direction from a buoy you design and build.
Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Compass, GPS, Barometer
Bridge & Structure Vibration Monitoring
Track how a bridge or road vibrates through a full daily traffic cycle.
Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Compass, GPS
Tree Sway & Wind Response
Measure how trees move in the wind - and what their motion reveals about their health.
Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Compass, GPS, Barometer
Tilt Current Meter
Measure current speed from the deflection of a buoyant rod anchored to the bottom.
Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Compass, Depth, Water Temperature
Lagrangian Surface Drifter
Track surface currents with a drifter you design and build.
GPS, Compass