Week 2 (10 - 16 November 2025)

Structures and Instrumentation

1. Read the following information on equipment selection and deployment.

2. View the two PowerPoint presentations showing examples of station structures and instruments setups. This will take 15-30 minutes.

Telemetry

Telemetry is defined as the sensing and measuring of information at some remote location and then transmitting that information to a central host location. In a typical application the base station requests data from the remote site(s). The base transmits a request to the remote unit telling it to send its data. The base reverts to receive mode and waits for the transmission from the remote site. After the remote sends its data it returns to a receive mode waiting for further instructions to come from the base. Once the base receives the remote site information it may send additional instructions to that site or continue on to request data from another remote site.

This section shows different telemetry options available for automated data retrieval from stations.

1. View the PowerPoint presentation showing examples of instruments and station setups. This will take 10-15 minutes.

2. Read the following information about the Neon network.

3. Watch the following Neon Webpage demo.

Initial Data Processing using TIDEDA

This section contains screen capture video of basic TIDEDA use which covers initial data processing only.

1. Read the following information on data processing and TIDEDA. (The document about TIDEDA comments is provided for future reference. It is not required for this course.)

2. Watch the 10 topic sessions on TIDEDA software use, in order of 1 - 10.