Instrumentation

Common Sensor Platform

An overview of the Common Sensor Platform from EarthScope Projects.

Project Overview

The NSF National Geophysical Facility's Common Sensor Platform (CSP) project standardizes station design into a scalable and modular framework to be used across multiple sensor types.

The major objectives of this initiative have been to: 

  • Identify commonalities and differences in historic station designs
  • Develop a core sensor platform drawing from commonalities
  • Specify scalable and modular components for diverse environments and usage cases
  • Leverage Earthscope’s broad engineering expertise to enhance design commonalities and optimize engineering operations. 
  • Foster a collaborative engineering culture for ongoing station/platform design and optimization.

Common Sensor Platform Initiative

A unified, modular, and scalable design approach for geophysical instrumentation deployments.

A schematic of the Common Sensor Platform.
A schematic of the Common Sensor Platform.