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Open projects, open methods and open templates this community builds on, with the licence of every source carried through.

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01Open projects

What this community builds on.

Open hardware, software and data projects, named as references. Each keeps its own licence and its own governance.

  • OpenAQ
  • Safecast
  • AudioMoth
  • FLUXNET and ICOS tools
  • Global Forest Watch
  • FloodNet NYC open hardware
  • UCAR 3D-PAWS
  • Open CAP editors
  • WIS2 reference nodes (wis2box)
  • Sensor.Community

02Open methods and templates

Every calculation, with a worked example.

Observatory templates for this industry, each a starting design you can read, run and adapt on the open protocol.

Template

Methane fenceline observatory

Point sensors on the fenceline with optical gas imaging and quantification, feeding leak-detection reports.Template

Bioacoustic biodiversity observatory

Open-hardware acoustic recorders on solar power with low-power radio or satellite uplink, for species baselines.Template

Low-cost stream gauge network

Radar or pressure level sensors with low-power radio and solar power, as a cheaper tier beside a national gauge network.Template

Hybrid air-quality observatory

A few reference analysers and many low-cost nodes, with co-location calibration and an open-data feed.Template

Research-infrastructure gap node

A standardised observation package with a FAIR data pipeline, built to extend a research infrastructure’s coverage.Template

GBON gap-filler station

A WMO-grade surface station, optional upper-air ground station and a WIS 2.0 node, built to report reliably where the global basic observing network has gaps.Template

Wildfire camera and fire-weather node

Pan-tilt and thermal cameras with edge inference on a ridgeline tower, co-located with a fire-weather station.Template

Street flood observatory

Ultrasonic depth sensors on poles report street-level water depth as open data and alerts.Template

Deployable incident observatory

A trailer or vehicle with a cell on wheels, satellite backhaul, a mesh kit, a drone and weather and air-quality nodes for an incident base.Template

State or provincial mesonet site

A full weather station on a solar-powered tower with soil sensors, one of a dense network run by a university.Template

Highway corridor coverage and safety sensing

Small cells with satellite backhaul along an unserved highway, with road-weather and camera nodes.Template

Avalanche detection site

Doppler radar, infrasound and geophones with a snow and wind station, feeding a road or resort control room.Template

Utility grid-edge private LTE and wildfire weather

Private LTE on substations and poles for distribution automation, with weather nodes that inform public-safety power shutoff decisions.

03Open data

Networks on the grid, with their licences.

The open observing networks on the grid, each shown with its source and licence, and the protocol that lets new ones join.

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Open networks

Instruments from open networks, on real relief.Earth and maps →

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Sources and licences

Every dataset with its source and the terms it is used under.Data credits →

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The protocol

The open specification any instrument or network can implement.Read the protocol →

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