(otas & tsumami) The Tsunami Warning System

This is a photo of the "tsunami warning system" I build circa 1990 for my PhD Thesis.

Worked linked to a seismometer and a pressure gauge at the sea bottom and with satellite transmission (INMARSAT-C aka standard-C). It was power by solar panels and by a wind generator. A whip antenna (only barely visible in the photo) and an OMEGA (VLF) receptor were used to synchronize the 2 clocks on board. A few auto-powered RAM cards stored the data. The control program was written in PL/M, compliled in a cross compiler, tested with the help of an ICE and “burned” in an EPROM chip.

After that I somehow forgot this subject. But now I am working to the OTAS project.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/otas

http://otas.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php

http://otas.sourceforge.net

Fifteen years, in science and technology, is a long time, so I have a lot of things to study, to catch up