Acquisition, Storing, and Processing System for Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Sciences

The article presents the results of research carried out as part of the interdisciplinary cooperation of scientists in the field of geochemistry and computer science. Such a model of cooperation is justified and especially purposeful in resolving various environment protection tasks, including the issues of energy transformation and climate change. The research regards air quality monitoring case study conducted in Ochotnica, South Poland. The environmental data have been collected, stored, and processed using a set of sensor stations as well as a data storing and processing service. The stations and the service are very flexible, easily extensible, and they have been successfully designed, implemented, and tested by the authors of this paper in the mentioned air quality monitoring case study. The collaboration in the conducted research has been an opportunity to create and test in practice a comprehensive, versatile and configurable data acquisition and processing system which supports not only this use case, but also can be applied to a wide variety of general data acquisition and data analysis purposes. In this paper we discuss the analysis of acquired environmental data as well as a general approach to environmental data processing and visualization system.