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title: "Field environments | Nexus Observatory"
description: "Each environment is a working site drawn to scale: the instruments, the network that joins them and the edge that publishes…"
url: https://observatory.global/environments/wildfire-forest/
publisher: Nexus Observatory Inc.
updated: 2026-10-28
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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 site** A 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.](https://observatory.global/environments/mountain-valley/)

[**Coastal port** Coastal 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.](https://observatory.global/environments/coastal-port/)

[**River basin** Water-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.](https://observatory.global/environments/river-basin/)

[**Wildfire forest** Camera masts on the ridges, a weather station in the stand and a private cell: the red ground is what the ridge camera can see.](https://observatory.global/environments/wildfire-forest/)

[**Open-pit mine** GNSS 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.](https://observatory.global/environments/open-pit-mine/)

[**City block** Small cells on street poles, air-quality nodes and heat sensors across four blocks, joined to an edge node that publishes open city data.](https://observatory.global/environments/city-block/)

[**Farm** Soil probes in the fields, a LoRaWAN gateway on a mast, a weather station and a solar microgrid powering the edge.](https://observatory.global/environments/farm/)

[**Transmission corridor** Lattice 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.](https://observatory.global/environments/transmission-corridor/)

[**Offshore and ocean** A moored met-ocean buoy and a profiling float report through a satellite pass overhead; the red link is the uplink.](https://observatory.global/environments/offshore-ocean/)

[**Arctic station** A 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.](https://observatory.global/environments/arctic-station/)

[**Ground station** An 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.](https://observatory.global/environments/ground-station/)

[**Orbit view** Ground tracks of a sun-synchronous imager and three shells of a broadband constellation, computed from their orbits over a rotating Earth.](https://observatory.global/environments/orbit-view/)

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