<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Linux in Environmental Research</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Linux Ecology-HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Ecology Software (Simulation, Data Collection, Statistics, etc.)" HREF="ecology-howto-software.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Tierra" HREF="ecology-howto-software-tierra.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="SWARM" HREF="ecology-howto-software-swarm.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Linux Ecology-HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="ecology-howto-software-tierra.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 13. Ecology Software (Simulation, Data Collection, Statistics, etc.)</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="ecology-howto-software-swarm.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="ecology-howto-software-environmental-research" ></A >13.3. Linux in Environmental Research</H1 ><P > Courtesy of Wade W. Hampton: Linux is ideally suited for use as a research tool for environmental experiments. There are small embedded Linux solutions that can be used for remote monitoring or telemetry. There are VERY small Linux implementations from PC-104 systems to embedded systems like the <A HREF="http://www.uclinux.com" TARGET="_top" >uCsimm</A >. Linux even flew on the shuttle controlling biological experiments.... Linux has been used for weather research on NOAA's Hurricane Hunter aircraft. </P ><P > Linux is also an ideal platform for researching ecological and environmental information via the Internet using standard WWW-based tools like Netscape. </P ><P > Linux may even be used to model complex biological and environmental processes. <A HREF="http://www.beowulf.org" TARGET="_top" >beowulf clusters</A > have been used to run complex simulations of environmental processes, for example Earthdome, listed in the <A HREF="http://www.beowulf.org/overview/projects.html" TARGET="_top" >Beowulf projects page</A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ecology-howto-software-tierra.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ecology-howto-software-swarm.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Tierra</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ecology-howto-software.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >SWARM</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >