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Spotted on the  ArXiv Physics blog , what about using the  SKA array  and the Moon as a collector, that would certainly qualify as ...

On Wondering Star , we feature very large sensing capabilities. Nature often provides this probing capacity by bombarding us with different...

What can you do with a billion smartphones ? Participatory sensing seems an obvious choice or at least it was back in 2008-2009. From th...

Marian Steinbach , who was one of the first web person to parse web documents from Japanese into parsable content during the Fukushima accid...

Last month, I mentioned how GPS Constellation can be used as a way to image the Ionosphere . Using the principle mentioned then, JPL has a w...

This past week, there has been much issue with the fact the iPhone and Android phone stored the location of these phones in the clear. An...

The Quake Catcher Network is a sensor network made up of people's computers. The data comes from the internal accelerometers of these c...

[ Metafilter readers : Wondering Star is focused on planet sized sensor networks, if you have other examples please let me know . Thanks!] ...

While we all know about the GPS constellation of 32  satellites orbiting the Earth in MEO that provide coordinates to our smartphones ( ha...

With  this arxiv blog entry entitled " Astronomers Calculate Comet's Orbit Using Amateur Images " one realizes that astrophot...