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Instruments that outlast the grant.

Field campaigns, seismology, hydrology, ocean, ecology, polar and research-infrastructure gap filling.

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Scientific: on the ground

  1. Scientific

    Instruments that outlast the grant.

    Field campaigns, seismology, hydrology, ocean, ecology, polar and research-infrastructure gap filling.

  2. Ground station

    Ground station

    A ground station: the main antenna, its companions and the edge.

  3. Ground station

    Ground station

    Each pass becomes catalogued, analysis-ready products at the edge. Processes a pass to analysis-ready products and catalogues them before the next pass.

  4. Ground station

    Ground station

    The main antenna tracks a pass from mask to mask. Tracks each pass from mask to mask; S-band commands up, X-band data down.

  5. Proof

    What buyers ask to see.

    • Calibration traceability
    • Data-format conformance (netCDF/CF, FDSN, OGC SensorThings, WIS2)
    • Datasets with persistent identifiers
    • Uptime in harsh environments
    • Cost per data-year

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.

Scientific: use cases, kit and products

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GBON gap-filler station

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Citizen seismology node

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Wave buoy coastal array

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Bioacoustic biodiversity observatory

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Low-cost stream gauge network

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Research-infrastructure gap node

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Northern civil observatory

Aws reference

Radiosonde ground station

Edge node

Satcom dish

Cellular modem

Solar array

Telescopic mast

Hourly and sub-hourly BUFR observations to WIS 2.0

National open data and verification feeds

Reporting-uptime evidence

Seismic

FDSN-compatible waveform streams

Moored buoy

Ntn terminal

Wave spectra and sea-state time series

Inputs to coastal forecasts

Acoustic

Lpwan endpoint

Lorawan gateway

Species occupancy and acoustic baselines

Hydrology level

Flow

Stage and flow time series

Flood-warning inputs, labelled supplementary

Gnss reference

Sensor hub

FAIR datasets delivered to research-infrastructure portals

Gnss geodetic

Magnetometer

Generator

Fuel cell

Shelter

Weather and space-weather observations

Search-and-rescue support data

Scientific: 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.

Scenario

Research-infrastructure gap-filling nodes

Observatory-as-a-service for research infrastructures that must extend coverage under their own quality rules.Protocol & Grid, Data & licensing

Citizen seismology and school seismographs

Compact seismographs feeding open data networks.Protocol & Grid, Sensors & instruments

Stream gauges

A low-cost tier beside national gauge networks.Sensors & instruments, Connectivity

Ocean and coastal low-cost buoy arrays

Satellite-backhauled wave buoys accepted in a national programme trial.Scenario

Bioacoustics and biodiversity

Open acoustic recorders for species baselines.

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.

  • Calibration traceability
  • Data-format conformance (netCDF/CF, FDSN, OGC SensorThings, WIS2)
  • Datasets with persistent identifiers
  • Uptime in harsh environments
  • Cost per data-year

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

Connectivity

Private 5G, AI-RAN and orbit, on site.Platform

Earth observation & GeoAI

The ground, measured and modelled.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 field campaign logistics autonomous weather station polar stream gauge telemetry wave buoy passive acoustic monitoring seismic station hosting research infrastructure in-situ data FAIR data

Open projects, for reference

  • Raspberry Shake community and FDSN
  • AudioMoth (Open Acoustic Devices)
  • BirdNET
  • OpenMetBuoy
  • ObsPy
  • PhenoCam
  • OpenDroneMap
  • ICOS Carbon Portal tools
  • eLTER DEIMS

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 · 5

Environment and climate

Ecosystems, observed without a gap.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.

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

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Instruments that outlast the grant.

Field campaigns, seismology, hydrology, ocean, ecology, polar and research-infrastructure gap filling.

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