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Field environments

Observing sites, in the fields they serve.

Each environment is a working site drawn to scale: the instruments, the network that joins them and the edge that publishes, with a guided tour and the parts explained.

Mountain valley siteA private 5G tower, an automatic weather station, a compact radar and a seismic vault on real alpine terrain, joined to an edge data centre that admits, times and publishes every observation.Coastal portCoastal radar and AIS watch the approach, a met-ocean buoy reports the sea state, and crane-side edge compute closes the control loop on a private network.River basinWater-level gauges along a real valley floor, a weather station and an edge node: the red isoline is the ground that lies within a few metres of the lowest point of the reach.Wildfire forestCamera masts on the ridges, a weather station in the stand and a private cell: the red ground is what the ridge camera can see.Open-pit mineGNSS slope monitors on the benches, a blast seismograph at the boundary and a private cell for the fleet, around a pit cut into real terrain.City blockSmall cells on street poles, air-quality nodes and heat sensors across four blocks, joined to an edge node that publishes open city data.FarmSoil probes in the fields, a LoRaWAN gateway on a mast, a weather station and a solar microgrid powering the edge.Transmission corridorLattice towers carry a line across real terrain; conductor sensors report temperature and sag, and the substation edge brings them into the grid operator’s systems.Offshore and oceanA moored met-ocean buoy and a profiling float report through a satellite pass overhead; the red link is the uplink.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.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.Orbit viewGround tracks of a sun-synchronous imager and three shells of a broadband constellation, computed from their orbits over a rotating Earth.