Let’s discuss open source environmental sensing and operational open source monitoring platforms for ecosystem restoration, resource sustainability, and pollution. We can look at some open source examples in groundwater flow monitoring, greenhouse gas emissions, and reforestation.

Low cost environmental monitoring is needed to ensure paths forward for sustainable ecosystems and life ways through ever-increasing industrial utilization of the earth system. However, proprietary and high cost solutions limit access to and deployment of monitoring systems, slowing community responses and restoration engineering. Operational open source environmental platforms facilitate community driven initiates to meet these needs long term.