Field services

  • Observing a mountain valley: a reference design

    In a mountain valley, snow, slope and weather change faster than any one observer can follow. This reference design shows how a valley observing site watches them together, works around the terrain, and keeps deciding when…

  • A site from survey to decommission

    An observing site is not finished when it is switched on. It is surveyed, designed, installed, commissioned, operated, maintained and finally taken down, and each stage leaves a record that the next one depends on.