Featured Case Studies
South Africa: Solar Crop Dryer
Overview At Campbell Scientific, we are committed to supporting projects that harness technology to address real-world challenges. Recently, we had the privilege of collaborating... read more
U.S. ASOS Weather Network
Executive Summary Campbell Scientific partnered with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service (NOAA-NWS), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the US... read more
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Weather Applications Supported
Agriculture and Soils Research Instrumentation
- Argentina: SCADA System for Agricultural Regions
- Arizona: Meteorological Network
- Australia: Sugarcane Soil Nutrient Monitoring
- Colombia: Fighting Fungus on Roses
- Costa Rica: Banana Production
- France: Dynamic Agrivoltaism
- France: Plant Research with Branch Bag System
- France: Studying Crop Yields
- Illinois: Research Roof Garden
- Iraq: Better Decision-Making with an Agrometeorology Network
- Korea: Flux Monitoring over a Rice Paddy
- New Hampshire: Webcams in Forest
- Norfolk Agricultural monitoring station with Konect
- North Dakota Agricultural Weather Network
- Oklahoma Mesonet: Meteorological Network
- South Africa: Citrus Research Institute Monitors Exports
- South Africa: Sustainable Solutions for Farms
- Space Farmers
- Spain: Irrigation and Solar Radiation
- U.S. Rangeland: CO2 Monitoring
- Utah: Data Management for a Rural Irrigation System
- Washington: AgWeatherNet
- West Texas Mesonet
Air Quality and Pollution Instrumentation
Alpine Automated Weather Instrumentation
- California: Ski Resort Weather Stations
- Colorado: Avalanche Forecasting
- Italy: CS725 SWE Sensor Field Test
- Mount Kilimanjaro: Mass Balance
- Northern Canada: Hydroelectric Power Forecasting
- Peru: High-Elevation Weather on Glaciers
- Utah 2002 Winter Olympics: Real-Time Weather Data
- Western U.S.: SNOTEL Snowpack Telemetry Systems
Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) and Meteorologic Instruments
- Alaska: Boating Safety
- Alaska: Monitoring Mixing Dynamics and Water Quality
- Alberta: Crop Dusting
- Antarctica: Dry Valley Ecosystems
- Argentina: Measuring Mountain Weather Conditions
- Australia: Buoy-Based Weather Station
- Australia: Examining the Impacts of Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change
- Australia: Measuring Urban Rainfall
- Australia: Tropical Cyclone Debbie
- Bolivia: Climate Change and Ice Core Data
- California: Enhanced Climate Monitoring
- California: Ski Resort Weather Stations
- China: Lake Weather and Water
- China: Monitoring the Impact of Visitors
- Colorado: Avalanche Forecasting
- Connecticut: Golf Course Irrigation
- Costa Rica: Banana Production
- Costa Rica: Buoy System
- Croatia: Modernisation of a Countrywide Weather Observation Network
- Delaware: Environmental Observing System
- Egypt: Weather Monitoring at the Sphinx
- England: Stalagmite Monitoring
- England: Wind Monitoring Systems
- Eswatini: Strengthening Early Warning Systems and Climate Services
- ExoMars—Going to Mars
- France: Environmental Control for Cave Preservation
- France: Preserving Prehistoric Treasures
- France: Restoring a Royal Chapel
- Georgia 1996 Summer Olympics: Real-time Weather Monitoring
- Ile de La Réunion : Une Station météo pour alimenter le projet d’aménagement d’une Eco Cité de 140 000 habitants
- Illinois: Research Roof Garden
- Iraq: Better Decision-Making with an Agrometeorology Network
- Israel: Marine Meteorology on the Red Sea
- Italy: CS725 SWE Sensor Field Test
- Korea: Precipitation Measurements
- Malawi: Enhancing Weather Observation through Public-Private Partnership
- Moldova: Disaster Risk Mitigation
- Mont Blanc: Weather Monitoring
- Nevada: Air Quality Monitoring
- New Hampshire: Mount Washington Observatory
- New Mexico: ETo and Weather Monitoring
- New Zealand: Fire Weather Network
- North Dakota Agricultural Weather Network
- Norway: Agricultural Network for Pest Forecasting
- Oklahoma Mesonet: Meteorological Network
- Ontario: Solar-Energy Programs
- Pennsylvania: University Weather Station
- Peru: High-Elevation Weather on Glaciers
- Peru: Weather and Air-Quality Monitoring at Copper Mine
- Portugal: Cloud Base and Visibility Sensors for Military Aviation
- Réunion Island: Tropical Volcanic Watershed
- Rwanda: Weather Station Upgrades with GBON-Compliant Instrumentation
- South Africa: Cross-Campus Microclimate Mapping
- Southern Africa: Empowering Conservation and Water Security
- Swiss Alps: Glacier Research
- Texas: College Weather Station
- UK Met Office MMS Project
- Union des Comores : Mise en place de quatre stations météo pour une meilleure résilience face aux aléas climatiques
- United Arab Emirates: Groundbreaking Environmental Research
- United Kingdom: The Effect of a Solar Eclipse on the Weather
- Virginia: Tracking Climate Changes in National Park
- Washington: AgWeatherNet
- Washington: Integrating Weather Stations into Ferry Tracking System
- Washington: Weather and Water Quality Station
- West Texas Mesonet
- West Virginia: Meteorological Data Monitoring
- Zambia: Strengthening Climate Resilience
Aviation Weather
- Alaska: Aviation Weather
- Central Africa: Airport Weather System
- Instrumented Runway Visual Range (IRVR) System for Civil Aviation
- Mexico: Six Airports Get Automatic Weather Stations
- Ontario: Municipal Airport Automated Weather Observation System (AWOS)
- Portugal: Cloud Base and Visibility Sensors for Military Aviation
- U.S. ASOS Weather Network
- Weather Monitoring at Polish Airfield
Environmental Research
- Antarctica: Dry Valley Ecosystems
- Atlantic Ocean: Studying Atmospheric Electricity and Climate Change
- Australia: Ecological Research
- Australia: Rhizolysimeter Facility
- Bahamas: Marine Ecology
- Costa Rica: Tropical Biodiversity
- Delaware: Environmental Observing System
- District of Columbia: Solar Decathlon
- Greenland: Ecosystem Monitoring Program
- Montana: Acid Rock Drainage Monitoring
- New Hampshire: Webcams in Forest
- Norway: Airport Groundwater Quality
- Space Farmers
- Washington: AgWeatherNet
Evapotranspiration and Commercial Irrigation Instrumentation
- Arizona: Meteorological Network
- Connecticut: Golf Course Irrigation
- France: Dynamic Agrivoltaism
- New Jersey: Water-Resource Management and Weather Monitoring
- New Mexico: ETo and Weather Monitoring
- North Dakota Agricultural Weather Network
- Oklahoma Mesonet: Meteorological Network
- Texas: Water Conservation
- Utah: Data Management for a Rural Irrigation System
Fire Weather Stations
Water Applications Supported
Dam Monitoring—Water Level
Flood Warning Systems (ALERT/ALERT2)
- California: Hydropower Plant Monitoring
- Kentucky: Dam Repair
- New Zealand: Lahar Observations
- North Carolina: ALERT Stations Updated
- Panama Canal: Upgraded Flood Warning System
- Pennsylvania: Flood Warning
- Texas: Hurricane Harvey
- Texas: Transitioning to ALERT2
- Utah: Hybrid Flood Warning System
- Virginia: ALERT System
Mining
Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) Measurement
Surface Water Monitoring Instrumentation
- Argentina: SCADA System for Agricultural Regions
- Australia: Measuring Urban Rainfall
- Costa Rica: Buoy System
- Florida: Real-Time Water-Resource Monitoring
- Idaho: Identifying Water-Quality Factors
- Louisiana: Sinkhole Monitoring
- Montana: Mine Cleanup
- New Jersey: Trout Hatchery
- New Mexico: Cavern Collapse Alarm
- New Mexico: SCADA System
- Peru: High-Elevation Weather on Glaciers
- Texas: Transitioning to ALERT2
- Utah: Alarmed Water Monitoring System
- Utah: Data Management for a Rural Irrigation System
- Utah: Hybrid Flood Warning System
- Utah: Irrigation Network Monitoring
- Utah: Measuring Water Level in Water Tanks
- Utah: Monitoring Reservoir Water Level
- Utah: Public Water Supply System
- Utah: Stream Monitoring
- Utah: Water-Level System on Parshall Flume
- Utah: Water-Supply SCADA System
- Utah: Water System Monitoring and Control
Water Quality
- Alaska: Monitoring Mixing Dynamics and Water Quality
- Australia: Buoy-Based Weather Station
- Australia: Sugarcane Soil Nutrient Monitoring
- California: Monitoring Water Quality at a Recirculating Aquaculture Facility
- China: Lake Weather and Water
- Costa Rica: Buoy System
- Idaho: Identifying Water-Quality Factors
- Idaho: Watershed Turbidity Monitoring
- Long Island Sound: Water Quality
- Maryland: Aquaculture Lab Alarm System
- Mississippi: Dissolved Oxygen Monitoring and Control
- Montana: Acid Rock Drainage Monitoring
- Montana: Mine Cleanup
- Montana: River Water Quality
- Nevada: Wellbore Logging
- New Jersey: Trout Hatchery
- New Zealand: Coal Mine Water Quality Monitoring
- North Carolina: Estuary Hydro-Meteorological Monitoring
- Norway: Airport Groundwater Quality
- Pennsylvania: Lake Monitoring
- South Africa: Transforming a Polluted River
- Southeastern U.S.: Sediment Production Study
- Texas: Well Water Quality at a Military Post
- Townsville, Australia: Coastal water quality monitoring
- Utah: Stream Monitoring
- Washington: Watershed Turbidity Monitoring
Energy Applications Supported
Geothermal Energy
Solar Energy
Gas Flux and Turbulence Applications Supported
Gas Flux and Turbulence
- Australia: Ecological Research
- Australia: Examining the Impacts of Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change
- British Columbia: Forest Carbon Sequestration
- California: Turbulence Study in Walnut Orchard
- Central Asia: Rangeland CO2 Monitoring
- China: Flux Cooperation
- Colorado: RWIS Data from ALERT System
- Florida: Sampling the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
- India: Rice-Field Greenhouse Gases
- Korea: Flux Monitoring over a Rice Paddy
- United Kingdom: Pioneering Research in Carbon Sequestration
Infrastructure Applications Supported
Bridge Monitoring
- California: Irrigation Control
- Delaware River: Bridge Health
- Delaware: Urgent Action on Bridge
- England: Monitoring Bridge Deck Movement
- Hong Kong: Long-Term Monitoring for the World’s Longest Sea Crossing
- Illinois: Safeguarding Highways
- India: Long-Term Monitoring for the Himalayan Railway Bridge
- Louisiana: Monitoring Bridge Expansion
- Minnesota: Bridge Disaster Recovery
- Montana: Bridge Deck Performance
- New York: Bridge Load Testing
- North Wales: Bridge Load Monitoring
- Nova Scotia: Monitoring Bridge Performance for Future Projects
- Pennsylvania: Assessing Bridge Fatigue Life
- South Africa: Bridge Health Monitoring System
- Texas: Link Slabs’ Impact on Transportation Infrastructure
Building Structures
- Alaska: Cold-Weather Construction Research
- District of Columbia: Solar Decathlon
- Egypt: Preserving King Tut's Tomb
- Florida: Household Energy Monitoring
- Illinois: Research Roof Garden
- Nevada: Home Energy Savings
- Russia: Critical Data for Tower Construction
- United Kingdom: Concrete Performance Research
Construction
Dam Monitoring—Structural
- California: Public Utilities Commission
- Colombia: Transformation of Dam Safety with Real-Time Monitoring
- England: Underground Excavation for Rail System
- Montana: Acid Rock Drainage Monitoring
- Norway: Construction and Aquaculture Projects
- Nova Scotia: Monitoring Bridge Performance for Future Projects
- Ohio: Monitoring Sinking Highway
- Serbia: Enhancing Power Plant Safety Measures
- South America: Mine Tailings in Tailings Dams
- Southwest: Solving the Mystery of Erroneous Dam Monitoring Data
- Wyoming: Vibrating-Wire Technology for Dam Monitoring
Geotechnical
Mining
Pavement and Roads
Railway Monitoring
Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS)
- Austria: Vehicle Proving Ground for Automated Driving
- English Channel Tunnel: Road Weather and Ice-Warning System
- Italy: Road Weather Modeling
- Ontario: Road Weather Network
- Portugal: Formula 1 Weather Monitoring
- South Korea: Damage from Freezing Roads
- The Key To Improving RWIS Network Accuracy: Density
- UK Met Office MMS Project
- Utah: Upgraded Roadside Weather Stations
Seismic
Slope Stability
Structural Health Monitoring
- Canada: Structural Health Monitoring of an Overpass
- Delaware River: Bridge Health
- England: Monitoring Bridge Deck Movement
- Florida: Crack Monitoring at a Historic Site
- Hong Kong: Long-Term Monitoring for the World’s Longest Sea Crossing
- Kentucky: Dam Repair
- North Wales: Bridge Load Monitoring
- Nova Scotia: Monitoring Bridge Performance for Future Projects
- Space Research: Joint Damping Experiment
- Spain: Securing Structural Integrity
- United Kingdom: Concrete Performance Research
Soil Applications Supported
Agriculture and Soils Research Instrumentation
- Argentina: SCADA System for Agricultural Regions
- Arizona: Meteorological Network
- Australia: Sugarcane Soil Nutrient Monitoring
- Colombia: Fighting Fungus on Roses
- Costa Rica: Banana Production
- France: Dynamic Agrivoltaism
- France: Plant Research with Branch Bag System
- France: Studying Crop Yields
- Illinois: Research Roof Garden
- Iraq: Better Decision-Making with an Agrometeorology Network
- Korea: Flux Monitoring over a Rice Paddy
- New Hampshire: Webcams in Forest
- Norfolk Agricultural monitoring station with Konect
- North Dakota Agricultural Weather Network
- Oklahoma Mesonet: Meteorological Network
- South Africa: Citrus Research Institute Monitors Exports
- South Africa: Sustainable Solutions for Farms
- Space Farmers
- Spain: Irrigation and Solar Radiation
- U.S. Rangeland: CO2 Monitoring
- Utah: Data Management for a Rural Irrigation System
- Washington: AgWeatherNet
- West Texas Mesonet
Environmental Research
- Antarctica: Dry Valley Ecosystems
- Atlantic Ocean: Studying Atmospheric Electricity and Climate Change
- Australia: Ecological Research
- Australia: Rhizolysimeter Facility
- Bahamas: Marine Ecology
- Costa Rica: Tropical Biodiversity
- Delaware: Environmental Observing System
- District of Columbia: Solar Decathlon
- Greenland: Ecosystem Monitoring Program
- Montana: Acid Rock Drainage Monitoring
- New Hampshire: Webcams in Forest
- Norway: Airport Groundwater Quality
- Space Farmers
- Washington: AgWeatherNet
Evapotranspiration and Commercial Irrigation Instrumentation
- Arizona: Meteorological Network
- Connecticut: Golf Course Irrigation
- France: Dynamic Agrivoltaism
- New Jersey: Water-Resource Management and Weather Monitoring
- New Mexico: ETo and Weather Monitoring
- North Dakota Agricultural Weather Network
- Oklahoma Mesonet: Meteorological Network
- Texas: Water Conservation
- Utah: Data Management for a Rural Irrigation System