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Ecosystems, observed without a gap.

Measurement, reporting and verification for methane, carbon, biodiversity and water quality.

Plan with usScenariosThe protocol
Scenarios
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Templates
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Environment and climate: on the ground

  1. Environment and climate

    Ecosystems, observed without a gap.

    Measurement, reporting and verification for methane, carbon, biodiversity and water quality.

  2. Mountain valley site

    Mountain valley site

    A valley floor on real terrain: one tower, one edge module and three instrument classes form an observing site.

  3. Mountain valley site

    Mountain valley site

    A compact radar sees the valley floor that a distant national radar overshoots. A compact X-band radar fills the gaps national S-band radars leave under the beam in mountain valleys.

  4. Mountain valley site

    Mountain valley site

    Red cells are the ground in sight of the tower top, computed on the terrain with refraction.

  5. Mountain valley site

    Mountain valley site

    The weather station measures to its WMO siting class; its metadata travels with every value. Wind at 10 m, temperature and humidity in a shield at 1.5–2 m, sited to its WMO class.

  6. Proof

    What buyers ask to see.

    • Regulator acceptance
    • Third-party verification
    • Uncertainty quantification
    • Reconciliation at the highest reporting level
    • Open methods

01How it works

A station joins, then the work is shared.

One station runs the protocol from first contact to publishing; the graph beside it shows how this sector’s use cases share kit and products.

Station console

State

  1. Unenrolled 00:00.0
  2. Discovered
  3. Attesting
  4. Identity issued
  5. Policy bound
  6. Plan staged
  7. Local ready
  8. Degraded

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Simulated station: the values are generated in your browser to show the order of events. They are not measurements.

Environment and climate: use cases, kit and products

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Hybrid air-quality observatory

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Wildfire camera and fire-weather node

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Mine site private 5G and environmental monitoring

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Methane fenceline observatory

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Bioacoustic biodiversity observatory

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Low-cost stream gauge network

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Research-infrastructure gap node

Air quality

Micro node

Lorawan gateway

Cellular modem

Solar array

Air-quality index and hyperlocal maps, labelled supplementary

Calibrated time series with quality flags

Publication route to an open air-quality aggregator

Camera ptz

Camera thermal

Edge node

Weather station

Ptp microwave

Lattice tower

Smoke-detection alerts to dispatch, labelled supplementary

Public camera feeds

Fire-weather indices

5g core

Radio unit

Gpu edge server

Fibre terminal

Vibration

Radar

Autonomy and safety communications records

Environmental monitoring records (dust, blast vibration, slope, tailings)

Gas detector

Leak-detection survey records

Site-level emission estimates with uncertainty

Acoustic

Lpwan endpoint

Ntn terminal

Species occupancy and acoustic baselines

Hydrology level

Flow

Stage and flow time series

Flood-warning inputs, labelled supplementary

Aws reference

Gnss reference

Sensor hub

FAIR datasets delivered to research-infrastructure portals

Environment and climate: use cases, kit and products: functions in lifecycle order, and the objects they move. Each object is linked from the function that moves it first to every later function that moves it. The table view lists them all.

Use cases run left to right. Each piece of kit and each data product hangs at the use case that needs it earliest; its edges carry it to every later use case that uses it too.

02Deployment scenarios

How the grid is deployed here.

From the sector research, each with the observatory template that serves it where one exists.

Sensors & instruments

Methane fenceline and site-level continuous monitoring

Regulatory cadences in the EU and reporting levels in voluntary frameworks.Protocol & Grid, Sensors & instruments

Biodiversity measurement with acoustics and camera traps

Acoustic baselines as a biodiversity data source; no registry methodology accepting acoustic data was found.Protocol & Grid

Wildfire smoke and particulate health networks

Overlaps with cities and public safety.

03Proof

What buyers ask to see.

The evidence a procurement in this sector asks for, from the sector research. Each item is produced by the grid as a record, not written up afterwards.

  • Regulator acceptance
  • Third-party verification
  • Uncertainty quantification
  • Reconciliation at the highest reporting level
  • Open methods

04Participation

Where communities can host the grid.

Community

Join the community

One account for every community, platform and the NXS Observatory app.Open data

Use the open networks

Public observing networks on their own terms, ready to reuse.Hosting

Host a station

Tell us about a site; we bring the survey, the design and the crew.

05Lines

The lines that serve it.

The enterprise lines that carry the scenarios above, ranked by how many name their work.

Platform

Protocol & Grid

Your grid, on the open protocol.Platform

Sensors & instruments

Measurements that carry their own proof.Platform

Data & licensing

Grid data, licensed for your use.

06Search terms and open work

How the sector names the problem.

The terms buyers and programmes use, and open projects in the space, named as factual references only. Naming a project is not an endorsement or a relationship.

Search terms methane monitoring regulation continuous emissions monitoring biodiversity MRV eddy covariance tower water quality telemetry carbon credit monitoring

Open projects, for reference

  • OpenAQ
  • Safecast
  • AudioMoth
  • FLUXNET and ICOS tools
  • Global Forest Watch

07Other sectors

Every sector, one grid.

Scenarios · 5

Government and public safety

Warning starts with a measurement.Scenarios · 4

Cities

The street, measured block by block.Scenarios · 5

Communities and rural

Connectivity and sensing, locally owned.Scenarios · 5

Industrial

Sites, ground and air, on one record.Scenarios · 5

Agriculture

Soil, water and weather, field by field.Scenarios · 4

Sports and events

A temporary grid for a crowd.Scenarios · 4

Development and humanitarian

Data gaps close before the crisis.Scenarios · 6

Scientific

Instruments that outlast the grant.Scenarios · 4

Energy

Assets, grids and weather, joined.Scenarios · 4

Transport

Corridors that report their own state.Scenarios · 4

Defence-adjacent (civil dual-use)

Civil sensing only. Nothing else.Scenarios · 3

Education

Learning to observe, on a real grid.

Bring us the site.

Survey, design, deployment and operation for environment and climate. The form names who receives your details.

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Ecosystems, observed without a gap.

Measurement, reporting and verification for methane, carbon, biodiversity and water quality.

01How it works

From the instrument to the product.

The data path of each use case, tier by tier with the interface on every link, the equipment the use cases share, and one station joining the grid.

02Deployment scenarios

03Proof

What buyers ask to see.

The evidence a procurement in this sector asks for, from the sector research. Each item is produced by the grid as a record, not written up afterwards.

    04Participation

    Where communities can host the grid.

    Community

    Join the community

    One account for every community, platform and the NXS Observatory app.

    Open data

    Use the open networks

    Public observing networks on their own terms, ready to reuse.

    Hosting

    Host a station

    Tell us about a site; we bring the survey, the design and the crew.

    05Lines

    The lines that serve it.

    06Search terms and open work

    How the sector names the problem.

    The terms buyers and programmes use, and open projects in the space, named as factual references only. Naming a project is not an endorsement or a relationship.

    Search terms
    Open projects, for reference
      07Other sectors

      Every sector, one grid.

      Bring us the site.

      Talk to us