A Multi-Use Case Scientific Sensor Node

Nanometrics' Pegasus digitizer is the basis for a scientific grade node and is the latest development in many years of designing and building reliable seismic instruments for the scientific and monitoring community. Coupled in a grab-and-go quick deploy package with a variety of sensors enables responses to many types of events and environmental measurements. These types of systems are not only for hazards, such as earthquakes and volcanoes, but can form the basis of better tools used for critical structure and microzonation studies using ambient noise.  Pegasus takes advantage of a complete ecosystem of software, making planning, deploying and data harvesting very simple and straightforward as well as providing a dataset that includes automatically generated metadata in the form of StationXML and standard miniSEED data files.  Pegasus design criteria was based on optimal SWaP (Size, Weight and Power) and makes it unique in short to long duration deployments without swapping of units in the field, while its broad sensor compatibility enables many types of measurements and is completely compatible with the advantages of Nanometrics smart sensors.