This thesis describes the design and testing of a floppy disk drive based digital recorder. The device was originally built for a geomagnetic research project, but is also suitable for other phenomena with time scales from fractions of a second to approximately one day. The system is designed specifically to improve the reliability for long-term observing programs and to enhance the efficency of the subsequent data analysis procedures. Using an STD-Z80 BUS microcomputer, under the control of a Forth language program, the recorder stores digital data on removable 8-inch floppy disks. This thesis explicitly addresses the issue of cost and provides the necessary detail for reproduction of the device. A procedure is described for preparing the acquired data for analysis using computing facilities equiped with an appropriate disk reader. Also presented is a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the recorder's performance when applied to both synthetic and natural signals. The latter include geomagnetically induced currents in power transmission lines. / Science, Faculty of / Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of / Graduate
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/24592 |
Date | January 1985 |
Creators | Chapel, Brian Ernie |
Publisher | University of British Columbia |
Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
Rights | For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. |
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