[Geysers] automating eruption logging?

[David Schwarz]

Two problems with that:

1) The only geyser basin with sufficient communications infrastructure for
web cams to even be feasible is the Upper Geyser Basin, and it's already
got a couple that cover a large part of it in about the detail you could
expect from what is effectively a single vantage point.  They allow a
usable but far from complete record.

and

2) Try, just try, to get the local representatives of the National Park
Service to let you finance, install and support a web cam somewhere.  Offer
perpetual technical and financial support, the backing of 20 major research
institutions, and your first-born child.  Good luck.

David Schwarz

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:29 PM, greg mushial <gmushial at gmdr.com> wrote:

> Again, as a noobie, but as someone that has had to deal with realworld
> data taking: is it not possible to use a webcam to cover most of a geyser
> field, sample the cam every 30 secs, 60 secs; and from experience or from
> trianglating from a pair of cams, be able to identify what is erupting and
> log the events? Clearly not as much fun as sitting and waiting and
> watching...  but might allow for the building of a more complete database,
> and hence better eruption models. Just a thought...  or what'll have to
> pass as such.
> dr greg
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