To better understand the impact of the emission of greenhouse gases on the environment, researchers conducted a study in the Costa Rican rainforest to measure the exchange of CO2 (also known as the carbon flux) and other materials between the forest floor and the atmosphere.
This area was chosen because rainforests are naturally rich in biodiversity and are also carbon sinks (absorb CO2 and release oxygen into the environment).
The wireless measurement technology deployed in Costa Rica is a networked infomechanical system (NIMS) based on National Instruments' LabVIEW software and CompactRIO hardware. The NIMS application was developed at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) by the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS).
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