Real-Time Environmental Monitoring: Sensors and Systems - Textbook and Lab Manual

The textbook and lab manual provide engineering students with an introduction to real-time environmental monitoring using electronic sensors, instruments, systems, and software. It covers the fundamentals of sensor design, data collection, and analysis, with applications in soil, water, and air monitoring. The second edition includes state-of-the-art sensor technology and programming languages such as R, Python, Arduino, and SQL. It is designed to help students and instructors better understand the use and design of sensors and build systems and databases for monitoring different environments.

Format: Multiple-component retail product
Length: 720 pages
Publication date: 19 December 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The textbook and lab manual serve as comprehensive resources for engineering students to delve into the realm of real-time environmental monitoring, employing electronic sensors, instruments, systems, and software to facilitate continuous and long-term ecological and environmental data collection. Authored by the textbook's author and extensively tested in classrooms, the second edition boasts numerous applications utilizing state-of-the-art sensor technology and programming languages such as R, Python, Arduino, and SQL. Its primary objective is to assist both students and instructors in enhancing their understanding of the utilization and design of diverse sensors, as well as the construction of systems and databases for monitoring various environments, including soil, water, and air.

Key Features:

Emphasizes real-time monitoring as a rapidly emerging field for environmental assessment and compliance, providing a solid foundation in developing sensors and systems.

Includes 14 lab guides that parallel the theoretical concepts presented in 14 chapters of the textbook, offering hands-on practical experience.

Uses a practical and hands-on approach, utilizing low-cost devices, and showcases applications across a wide range of environmental and ecological systems.

Considered a valuable guide for students and practitioners worldwide involved in efforts to develop, employ, and maintain environmental monitors.

Offers a comprehensive blend of theoretical knowledge and practical exercises and problems, drawing from the author's extensive academic experience spanning 40 years.

Designed specifically for upper-level undergraduate or graduate programs in civil and environmental engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, geosciences, and environmental sciences, as well as professionals in environmental services, researchers in engineering, and academics in engineering.

Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032012667
Edition number: 2 ed