Redwood City Station and Sensor Information

Last Updated: 01/25/2009

Sensor Information:

My datalogging systems are currently monitoring 1 USGS telemetry sensor and 5 sensors 
located at my house in Redwood City California. The file name extensions corresponds
to the following sensor:
Channels in bold are currently online as of 11/2006.
  *.lc1   Long period (~14 seconds) homemade Lehman. This sensor is 
          oriented North-South.
  *.lc2   Short period commercial vertical sensor. This sensor went offline
          3/10/97 do to sensor failure. A new sensor was placed online 4/15/99 
          using this ID. This sensor was a L28 4.5HZ vertical short period unit.
          Starting 3/2000 this channel ID is being used with a new test sensor.
          The sensor is a vertical FBA. This channel is the integrated so the 
          output is velocity channel.
  *.lc3   Long period (~60 seconds) homemade Shackleford-Gundersen 
          horizontal sensor based on the Sept. 1975 Scientific American 
          article. This sensor is oriented North-South and went online 11/95. 
  *.lc6   +-2G ADXL05 Strong Motion Accelerometer Sensor. Currently oriented
          N-S. Went online 3/97 and offline 2/99.
  *.lc8   Short period channel of *.lc3. Homemade Shackleford-Gundersen 
          horizontal sensor based on the Sept. 1975 Scientific American 
          article. This sensor is oriented North-South and went online 09/97.This
	  channel went offline 2/2001. This channel is now back online as of 4/2001.
  *.lc9   GeoSpace HS-10-1 1 Hz vertical Geophone. This sensor went online 9/99.
          3/2000 - Gain between the sensor and the A/D card = 250. This sensor is 
          currently offline.
  *.lcs   New PSN strong motion sensor. Online 11/99, offline 2/2000. This channel
          is currently offline.
  *.lcref Test Channel. Currently (11/2006) this channel is connected to a 4.5 Hz vertical 

                   The following channels went online 6/1997
  *.lcel  +-2G Forced-Balance Accelerometer (Kinemetrics FBA-23A). This is
          a horizontal channel oriented E-W. Starting 8/2001 this channel is 
          now named LCEL was LC4
  *.lcnl  +-2G Forced-Balance Accelerometer (Kinemetrics FBA-23A). This is
          a horizontal channel oriented N-S. Starting 8/2001 this channel is 
          now named LCNL was LC5
  *.lczl  +-2G Forced-Balance Accelerometer (Kinemetrics FBA-23A), vertical 
          channel. Starting 8/2001 this channel is now named LCZL was LC7
   
                   The following channels went online 3/2000
  *.lceh  +-2G Forced-Balance Accelerometer (Kinemetrics FBA-23A) high gain 
          (G=200) channel. Oriented E-W. Full scale output = +-10 mg.
          Starting 8/2001 this channel is now named LCEH was LCE.
  *.lcnh  +-2G Forced-Balance Accelerometer (Kinemetrics FBA-23A) high gain 
          (G=200) channel. Oriented N-S. Full scale output = +-10 mg.
          Starting 8/2001 this channel is now named LCNH was LCN.
  *.lczh  +-2G Forced-Balance Accelerometer (Kinemetrics FBA-23A) high gain 
          (G=200) channel. Vertical Orientation. Full scale output = +-10 mg.
          Starting 8/2001 this channel is now named LCZH was LCZ.

                    The following channels went online 2/2001 and offline 5/2002
  *.rwn   N-S component 4.5HZ Mark Products L-15B Geophone. Gain between the
          A/D card and sensor = 250. 
  *.rwe   E-W component 4.5HZ Mark Products L-15B Geophone. Gain between the
          A/D card and sensor = 250. 
  *.rwz   Vertical component 4.5HZ Mark Products L-15B Geophone. Gain between the
          A/D card and sensor = 250. 

                    The following channels went online 11/2001 and offline 02/2003
  *.lcanh N-S component PSN-ACCEL accelerometer sensor board. High gain output. 
  *.lcaeh E-W component PSN-ACCEL accelerometer sensor board. High gain output. 
  *.lcazh Vertical component PSN-ACCEL accelerometer sensor board. High gain output.

                    The following channel went online 07/2003
  *.lcsv1 Kinemetrics SV-1 5-Second Intermediate Period vertical sensor. Amplifier
          gain = 200.

                    The following channels went online 06/2006
  *.lctst VolksMeter raw channel. This sensor is similar to the Shackleford-Gundersen LC8
          channel.
  *.lctst1 VolksMeter integrated channel.

USGS Telemetry Channels:

The following sensors are USGS high gain vertical sensors received using 
radio telemetry.

  *.cmm   Located at Mount Mocho 37.45N 121.49W
  *.cni   Located at Niles Canyon 37.607N 121.964W (curently offline) 
  *.cgp   Located near Hayward 37.64N 122.00W (currently offline)
  *.csz   Located at San Leandro 37.724N 122.119W (currently offline)
  *.jsb   Located at San Bruno Mountain 37.68N 122.40W  (currently offline)
  *.jsa   Located near Crystal Springs Reservoir 37.58N 122.41W  (currently offline)
  *.jcp   Located at Coyote Point in San Mateo 37.59N 122.32W  (currently offline)

Kinemetrics FBA-23A Channels:

Photo of the sensor.
Changes made 12/16/2002: 
The Amplifier/Filter boards have been changed to my 4-Channel Amp/Filter
board. The low gain channels still have a gain of 1 and the high gain channels
200. All six channels have a 20 Hz 8-Pole low-pass filter and a 60 second
1-Pole high-pass filter.
 Calibration:
  
  The sensor was calibrated at Kinemetrics on 1/30/99. All recording channels
  (*.LCEL, *.LCNL, *.LCZL) are set for a maximum output (+- 32768 A/D counts) of 
  +-2 g's. Each A/D channel's gain was measured to determine the actual 
  sensitivity.
  
     Component  Files    Maximum Output   Sensitivity Per Bit
        E-W     *.LCEL    +- 1.996 g          .06091 mg
        N-S     *.LCNL    +- 2.004 g          .06115 mg  
         Z      *.LCZL    +- 1.992 g          .06079 mg 

Filtering:
   
  Each channel has the same high and low pass filtering.
  
  High-Pass: 1-pole  .072 Hz (13.8 second) Butterworth
  Low-Pass:  6-pole  20 Hz Butterworth
High Gain Channels:
  
  Starting 3/2000 I added 3 more channels from the FBA. These channels 
  (*.LCEH, *.LCNH and *LCZH) go through one of my 3 channel Amp/Filter 
  boards. Each channel has the following characteristics:
  
  Gain: 200  High-Pass: 1-order .031 Hz (32 second) Low-Pass: 7 pole 20 Hz
  Sensitivity: +- .01g full scale (+- 32768 A/D counts) or .304ug 
                  (.2981 cm/sec/sec) per bit. 
  See note above regarding new filter settings. 

Name Changes:

Starting 8/2001 the following sensor names have been changed:
       
    Old              New                   Channel
  *.LC4            *.LCEL      Low gain E-W Kinemetrics FBA-23A
  *.LC5            *.LCNL      Low gain N-S Kinemetrics FBA-23A
  *.LC7            *.LCZL      Low gain  Z  Kinemetrics FBA-23A
  
  *.LCE            *.LCEH      High gain E-W Kinemetrics FBA-23A
  *.LCN            *.LCNH      High gain N-S Kinemetrics FBA-23A
  *.LCZ            *.LCZH      High gain  Z  Kinemetrics FBA-23A
  
  Also starting around 8/2001 all new event files now end in .PSN

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