The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of environmental sensing technologies and applications and to consider briefly the research effort.
This paper describes environmental sensing strategies and technologies for air, water quality and other monitoring applications. It concludes with a brief overview of research.
As a consequence of legislation, a technologically diverse family of sensors are used in a wide range of portable and fixed instruments to determine numerous polluting compounds entering and present in the environment. These play a critical role in protecting the environment, maintaining public health and monitoring global phenomena such as ozone depletion and artificial global warming. There is a widespread and technologically diverse research effort.
This paper provides a detailed insight into the sensors and instruments used in environmental monitoring.
