ABSTRACT


The objective of this project was to adapt the design of a robot that was originally created at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center called the TETwalker, in a computer simulation software program to demonstrate the collection of seismic data of ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland.  We will take their design and adapt it for seismic data collection by placing seismic sensors (geophones) in each ground node of the tetrahedral structure, or in the center node for deployment.  Seismic methods are analyzed in order to determine which design could possibly be more efficient and reliable in polar environments in terms of geophone deployment and environmental characteristics.