Field operations and lifecycle
Training curricula
Courses for operators, technicians and users, with assessment.
We support.
ISO 10015:2019 (competence management and people development)
Learning paths: from a first sensor to a commissioned site, one stage after another. The loop, step by step: 1. A sensor, a shelter and a tower, three lessons. 2. The chain from source to console stands ready. 3. First lesson: how a sensor measures. 4. Time and place are fixed to every sample. 5. Second lesson: how the data travels. 6. The relay forwards sealed packets untouched. 7. Signatures are checked before any model runs. 8. Third lesson: how the edge decides. 9. The edge releases confirmed results only. 10. Each lesson ends with a short quiz. 11. The console shows the evidence with the alert. 12. A path to the next level opens. 13. Instruments confirm the response took effect. 14. The whole chain is archived for audit. 15. Everything settles back to idle.
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A sensor, a shelter and a tower, three lessons
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Learning pathsFrom first principles to a commissioned site.
Learning paths, inside Training and enablement: training curricula, personnel competence schemes, siting classification, WIGOS metadata. Every item is traced to its specification, from ISO 10015:2019 (competence management and people development) to ISO/IEC 17024, and runs on the open Observatory Protocol.
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At a glance
Training curricula
Courses for operators, technicians and users, with assessment. In learning paths, part of Training and enablement, the operations, NOC, support and training layer holds training curricula, drawn against ISO 10015:2019. We build it into every site for learning paths against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.
Die probleem
From first principles to a commissioned site
Networks run for years; staff change. A system only the vendor understands is a system you rent forever, and one that degrades the day the vendor leaves. Training is how a network stays yours, and how its quality survives staff changes, contracts and years.
Key facts
- Specification
- ISO 10015:2019 (competence management and people development)
- Specification
- WMO-No. 1192 (WIGOS Metadata Standard) · WMO-No. 1160 (Manual on WIGOS, station identifiers)
- Specification
- ISO/IEC 17024
- Specification
- WMO-No. 8 siting classifications for surface observing stations · ISO 19289:2014
- Standaarde
- ISO 10015:2019 · WMO-No. 8 siting classifications for surface observing stations · ISO 19289:2014 · WMO-No. 1192
Components
- Pole-mounted edge gateway node
- Automatic weather station (AWS) to WMO siting practice
- Particulate monitoring station and sensor node
- Seismometer vault station (broadband, solar powered, GNSS-timed)
- LoRaWAN gateway, endpoint and soil probe
- Deployable field shelter with environmental control
- Data hall row pair with cold-aisle containment
- Operations console with a video wall
Interfaces
- Instrumente
- SDI-12 · RS-485 / Modbus RTU · 4–20 mA
- Radio
- Ethernet · LTE-M / NB-IoT · LoRaWAN
- Time and position
- GNSS 1PPS
- Security
- TPM 2.0
- Publishing
- MQTT
Where it works
- Personnel competence schemes
In the story below
- The system, part by part
- Assembly
- Installation
- Deployment
- Connections
- Operation
- Failure and recovery
- Scale and federation
- What you get
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Next steps
Plan a deploymentOpen the Field Deployment StudioSee Training and enablementStart a learning pathTraining and enablement · Learning paths
From first principles to a commissioned site
Networks run for years; staff change. A system only the vendor understands is a system you rent forever, and one that degrades the day the vendor leaves. Training is how a network stays yours, and how its quality survives staff changes, contracts and years.
What it does
Training curricula
Courses for operators, technicians and users, with assessment. In learning paths, part of Training and enablement, the operations, NOC, support and training layer holds training curricula, drawn against ISO 10015:2019. We build it into every site for learning paths against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.
- Specification
- ISO 10015:2019 (competence management and people development)
Calibration
WIGOS metadata
Station and instrument metadata to the WMO standard so others can interpret observations. In learning paths, part of Training and enablement, the calibration, metadata and quality control layer holds WIGOS metadata, drawn against WMO-No. We build it into every site for learning paths against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.
- Specification
- WMO-No. 1192 (WIGOS Metadata Standard) · WMO-No. 1160 (Manual on WIGOS, station identifiers)
Operations, NOC, support and training
Personnel competence schemes
Independent assessment of individual competence where clients or regulators require it. In learning paths, part of Training and enablement, the operations, NOC, support and training layer holds personnel competence schemes, drawn against ISO/IEC 17024. We build it into every site for learning paths against that standard, and keep its version and its test results on the site’s record.
- Specification
- ISO/IEC 17024
Time and place
When and where, on every record
Every record made for learning paths carries its time, from a clock disciplined by satellite time or a PTP grandmaster, with the position and siting record of the station that made it. When time or position degrades, the record for learning paths says so, and every user downstream sees the same warning.
Meteorology
Siting classification
Classes for the exposure of each instrument so data users know how representative a site is. In learning paths, part of Training and enablement, the meteorology layer holds siting classification, drawn against WMO-No. 8 siting classifications for surface observing stations and ISO 19289:2014.
- Specification
- WMO-No. 8 siting classifications for surface observing stations · ISO 19289:2014
Vertroue
Proved before it is trusted
A node joins a network for learning paths only after its hardware root of trust answers an attestation challenge. Its keys stay in secure hardware, its software arrives signed and every record it makes for learning paths carries a signature, so anyone downstream can check where a value came from.
Bewyse
Traced to its specifications
We trace each part of learning paths to its specification: ISO 10015:2019, WMO-No. 8 siting classifications for surface observing stations and ISO 19289:2014. We keep the versions, configurations and test results of learning paths as signed records, so a buyer or an auditor can check what was delivered against what was specified.
- Standaarde
- ISO 10015:2019 · WMO-No. 8 siting classifications for surface observing stations · ISO 19289:2014 · WMO-No. 1192
Failure and recovery
When a node fails, the fleet knows first
When a node for learning paths goes silent or a sensor drifts, the node buffers its data and fails over to a second link where the site has one. The alert carries the evidence a responder needs, and the record for learning paths loses nothing and counts nothing twice.
Bywerkings
Updates in rings, with rollback
Software and configuration reach a fleet for learning paths in rings: one canary site first, then a few, then all, each ring gated on health and data completeness. A failed gate stops the wave, and each node for learning paths returns to its last good release without a site visit.
How it scales
One base unit, repeated
A network for learning paths starts with one base node and the instruments it reads. A station adds power and radio, a site adds a relay and a fleet repeats the proven site, so capacity for learning paths grows by adding units, never by replacing what works.
What you get
Academy paths, on-site enablement
Academy paths, guides and the glossary are open. Operator and technician training and on-site enablement are contracted; pricing follows the people trained and the sites involved, and the material remains available to your team. Courses can run on your site, at ours or remotely for the theory, with the practical parts always on real equipment.
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Learning paths, planned with you
Tell us the sites, the systems learning paths must work with and the outcome you need, with a map or a list of addresses if you have one. An engineer replies with a survey proposal, a design and a scope for learning paths, and the plan grows from one site to the network you need.
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See it from every side.
Each opens as a full-screen presentation: deeper pages on the same subject, explainers, stories, guided tours of the places, network scenes and the observatories that came before.
All presentationsIn depth
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Guided tour · Guided 3D tour Orbit viewGround tracks of a sun-synchronous imager and three shells of a broadband constellation, computed from their orbits over a rotating Earth.Guided tour · Guided 3D tour Arctic stationA self-powered station on the ice: a microgrid, a low-orbit satellite terminal, a weather station, a GNSS monument and an edge node that holds data through the polar night.Guided tour · Guided 3D tour Ground stationAn 11 m class antenna and its companions on a fenced pad, with edge compute that turns each pass into catalogued products before the next one.Network scene · O-RAN · Fronthaul Open RAN in a suburbA disaggregated site: the radio unit on the mast, the distributed unit in the cabinet, the central unit and near-real-time RIC at the edge, the non-real-time RIC and SMO in the…Network scene · Backhaul · Fresnel zone Microwave backhaul across a river valleyAn 18 GHz hop from the church tower to a mast on the far side of the flood plain: its first Fresnel zone, clearance over the town and trees, and what a new building in the path…Heritage observatories
Heritage observatory · Switzerland · 2005 Global Earth Observation System of SystemsA framework that connects existing Earth observation systems of many countries through shared principles and interfaces instead of building one new system.Heritage observatory · Geostationary orbit over the Americas · 1975 GOESSince 1975 a succession of NOAA satellites has hovered 35,786 kilometres above the equator, watching the same hemisphere without a break.Interactive tools
Interactive tool · Configure a station Station BuilderConfigure a station part by part in 3D, check the rules as you go and request a quote for the assembly.01Wat dit is
Operations, NOC, support and training.
Everything that happens on the ground across a site’s life: survey, permits, design packs, logistics, installation, acceptance, training, operations, maintenance, upgrades, decommission and recycling, done safely and recorded as evidence. Instruments placed in the air, water, ground and spectrum, from weather stations to seismometers, radars and cameras, with the calibration, metadata and quality control that make their readings evidence. Each technology below carries what it is, what we do with it, and the standard it is drawn against.
Field operations and lifecycle
Personnel competence schemes
Independent assessment of individual competence where clients or regulators require it.
We support.
ISO/IEC 17024
In situ sensors and instruments
Siting classification
Classes for the exposure of each instrument so data users know how representative a site is.
We design.
WMO-No. 8 siting classifications for surface observing stations · ISO 19289:2014
In situ sensors and instruments
WIGOS metadata
Station and instrument metadata to the WMO standard so others can interpret observations.
We design and operate.
WMO-No. 1192 (WIGOS Metadata Standard) · WMO-No. 1160 (Manual on WIGOS, station identifiers) · OSCAR/Surface
02Architecture
Where it sits, and what it speaks.
Learning paths draws on the spectrum below; the highlighted layers carry this area, and the protocol functions it speaks are marked.
Survey and site acquisition
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Permitting and approvals
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Design packs and logistics
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Installation, commissioning and acceptance
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Operations, NOC, support and training
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Maintenance, spares, refurbishment and upgrades
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Decommission and recycling
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Health, safety and evidence records
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Meteorology (WMO No. 8 classes)
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Air quality and atmospheric composition
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Hydrology and water
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Ocean and coastal
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Seismic, geodetic, geomagnetic and radiation
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RF, acoustics, cameras and radar
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Calibration, metadata and quality control
7
Frontier and research
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01Sluit aan Identity, attestation quote, signed policy.
02Admit Admitted for a stated scope, nothing wider.
03Beskryf What, where, how and by whom, with calibration.
04Time One clock across the grid, with its error bound.
05Observe Every value with quality and provenance.
06Qualify Tested against the specification, state on record.
07Federate Signed exchange across grids and trust domains.
08Orchestrate Software and configuration by signed plan.
09Correct A correction marks what depends on it and publishes a new version.
10Exchange Products reach people and applications through versioned interfaces.
11Prove Signed proof receipts that an independent verifier can check.
12Exit and decommission An open exit path, and a record that closes.
03On the grid
Every site joins one observing grid.
The open networks on the grid today, over real relief and the geodesic cells we count them into. A site built here enrols into the same grid.
The observing grid
- Open instruments on the observing grid.
04In the field
Where this runs, sector by sector.
Deployment scenarios from the sector research that rely on learning paths.
Communities and ruralLast-mile fixed wireless with community anchor sensing
Sub-grantee partnerships where observatory nodes co-host at schools, clinics and fire halls.Development and humanitarianSchool connectivity with a school observatory
Satellite or fixed wireless, school Wi-Fi, an open connectivity probe and an optional station.ScientificCitizen seismology and school seismographs
Compact seismographs feeding open data networks.EducationSchool weather, air and seismic station programmes
Hosted sensors and seismographs with classroom datasets.05Open and enterprise
Open by default. Enterprise by contract.
The open counterpart lives on the main site for anyone to read and run. The enterprise service is designed, deployed and operated with you, under contract.
Open, on the main site
- Academy paths
- Guides and glossary
Enterprise, on this site
- Operator and technician training
- On-site enablement
06The rest of the line
Training and enablement, area by area.
Training and enablementOperateurs
Run the grid, read the evidence.Training and enablementField crews
Install, commission and maintain, on site.Training and enablementEngineers
Design, integration and the protocol in depth.Training and enablementPartner enablement
Integrators and suppliers, on one practice.Bring us the site.
Survey, design, deployment and operation for learning paths. The form names who receives your details.
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