Duiker

Applications > Seismic > Duiker: A data acquisition software suite for remotely deployed Q330 digitizers

Overview:

Duiker is a data acquisition software suite for remotely deployed Q330 digitizers. The Duiker wireless acoustic and seismic sensing systems are based on a common software and hardware platform, and share robustness and scalability features. Both the systems use battery powered sensor nodes based on an XScale processor, running Linux, 802.11b radios, and software written in EmStar.

A white paper on the software is available in both pdf and postscript.
These presenatations provide a tutorial of the software: seismic powerpoint | acoustic powerpoint

Download:

• For Intel x86 architecture:
  The Ubuntu ISO image ubuntu-6.06.1-desktop-i386-raven-18.iso primarily contains Emstar source, installed Emstar binaries, and Emstar binaries for stargate release 7.2 (ARM architecture). One can use the ISO image in multiple ways:
1. burn an ISO CD and use the CD to boot his PC to get pre-installed Emstar (advantage: no installtion on PC reuired; disadvantage: executing from CD could be slow if you have less RAM in the PC)
2. burn an ISO CD and use the CD to install Ubuntu with pre-installed Emstar on his PC (advantage: Emstar binaries run at the native speed on your PC; disadvantage: needs to install Ubuntu on your PC)
3. install Ubuntu along with Emstar in a emulator such as Paralles Desktop for Mac OS X, VMWare and Qemu for Windows and Linux <(advantage: Emstar binaries execute at a better speed than that of using option 1 of CD; disadvantage: needs to install Ubuntu in your choice of emulator/simulator)
• For stargate architecture:
  The bootloader, kernel, and root file-system contain all of the seismic software (Disruption Tolerant Shell, ETX-based routing, File Mover, etc) as part of the pre-installed OS image for the stargate. One can load this image on their stargate using zmodem or TFTP.

For more information about the use of the software, please read seismic presentation slides posted above on this page.

Contact:

For acoustic: Lewis Girod (girod AT nms.lcs.mit.edu)
For seismic: Vinayak Naik (naik AT cens.ucla.edu)