Digitization of optical lever instruments
Some classical old-fashioned instruments (such as the Wood-Anderson seismometers), as well as some modern instruments (like the all-quartz made Verbaandert-Melchior tiltmeters), conventionally require an impractical recording system obtained by a photographic drum recorder in a darkroom. Simple elec...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
2000-06-01
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| Series: | Annals of Geophysics |
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| Online Access: | http://www.annalsofgeophysics.eu/index.php/annals/article/view/3657 |
| Summary: | Some classical old-fashioned instruments (such as the Wood-Anderson seismometers), as well as some modern instruments (like the all-quartz made Verbaandert-Melchior tiltmeters), conventionally require an impractical recording system obtained by a photographic drum recorder in a darkroom. Simple electronic equipment (made by readily available, low cost electronics) may help in using such kind of instruments allowing a useful digital recording. This will reduce the time-hour in data acquisition and storage (and the manual error), and will increase the accuracy. The theory of operations and some results obtained using the described equipment are shown. |
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| ISSN: | 1593-5213 2037-416X |