Data & licensing

  • Observing a river basin: a reference design

    A flood warning is worth what it gives people time to do. This reference design shows how a river basin observing site measures rain and river, wins lead time from upstream, and keeps warning when its…

  • Observing the open ocean: a reference design

    Far from shore, every observation has to be made, powered and sent home by the instrument itself. This reference design shows how a moored buoy and a profiling float watch the sea and the water beneath…

  • A ground station for Earth observation: a reference design

    An Earth observation ground station has minutes to catch each satellite pass and the time until the next one to turn it into products. This reference design shows how the antenna, radio, clock and edge work…

  • Observing a working farm: a reference design

    On a working farm the daily question is water: how much the crop used, how much the soil still holds and when to irrigate. This reference design for observing a working farm answers it with soil…

  • Observing a city block: a reference design

    Air, heat and movement change from one street to the next. This reference design for observing a city block puts sensors and small cells on the street furniture, corrects cheap sensors against a reference, and publishes…

  • Observing the planet as one network

    No single owner can observe a planet. Weather services, utilities, ports, researchers and communities each run instruments, and observation works best when they act as one network of many owners.

  • Observing a coastal port: a reference design

    A port works at the meeting point of weather, water and traffic. This reference design shows how one observing site can watch all three, keep working when its links fail, and hand every value on with…

  • Observation across industries

    Water agencies, grid operators, ports, farms and civil protection ask different questions of the world, yet they answer them with the same shared building blocks: instruments, trusted time and place, links, edge computing and open data.