Scott Base Testing 2014
NIWA-led testing of the WII2 sensor board at Scott Base, Antarctica — November 2014. Captured Kistler accelerometer, MPU9150 IMU, GPS, and Iridium telemetry at 2–8 Hz.
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NIWA-led field testing of the WII2 sensor board at Scott Base, Antarctica — November 2014. The trip exercised the second-generation buoy hardware end-to-end before any open-water deployment.
Hardware under test:
- Sparton inclinometer for orientation
- MPU9150 IMU (accelerometer / gyroscope / magnetometer)
- Kistler high-precision accelerometer for wave motion
- Venus GPS for position and timing
- Iridium 9602 / 9522B SBD modems for telemetry
- Sampling at 2–8 Hz to SD card, with periodic SBD transmission
The WII2 firmware tree that drove this trial is documented under Software → Other → WII2_Board. The campaign sat between WII1 (the original 2012 buoy) and the WII3 generation that followed.
See also
- WII1–WII3 buoy types — the broader generational lineage.
- NIWA 2012 — Original Deployment (Nature 2014) — the earlier WII1 work that produced the seminal Nature result.