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Sensors 2002, 2, 270-285 sensors ISSN 1424-8220 © 2002 by MDPI /sensors Invited Paper The Sensor Web: A Macro-Instrument for Coordinated Sensing Kevin A. Delin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099. E-mail: Kevin.A.Delin@ Received: 9 July 2002 / Accepted: 14 July 2002 / Published: 14 July 2002 Abstract: The Sensor Web is a macro-instrument concept that allows for the spatio- temporal understanding of an environment through coordinated efforts between multiple numbers and types of sensing platforms, including both orbital and terrestrial and both fixed and mobile. Each of these platforms, or pods, communicates within their local neighborhood and thus distributes information to the instrument as a whole. Much as intelligence in the brain is a result of the myriad of connections between dendrites, it is anticipated that the Sensor Web will develop a macro-intelligence as a result of its distributed information with the pods reacting and adapting to their environment in a way that is much more than their individual sum. The sharing of data among individual pods will allow for a global perception and purpose of the instrument as a whole. The Sensor Web is to sensors what the Internet is to computers, with different platforms and operating systems communicating via a set of shared, robust protocols. This paper will outline the potential of the