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Autor: Aspen Nielsen | Ultima atualização: 11/10/2025 | Comentários: 0
When weather impacts decisions, safety, livelihoods, and research, there is no room for guesswork. The modern world depends on data, including accurate weather information. While “data-driven decisions” is often treated like a buzzword, in the field it means the difference between reacting with uncertainty and... Leia maisAutor: Shaurya Rastogi | Ultima atualização: 11/03/2025 | Comentários: 0
In today’s connected world, protecting your data is more important than ever, especially when it comes to environmental, industrial, or scientific monitoring. If you’re using an automated monitoring platform (also known as a data-acquisition system or data logger) from Campbell Scientific, strong security practices safeguard... Leia maisAutor: Prajaya Prajapati | Ultima atualização: 10/30/2025 | Comentários: 0
Monitoring terrestrial photosynthesis at canopy and ecosystem scales is key to improving our understanding of the global carbon cycle, vegetation stress, and climate feedback. Over the past decade, measuring sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) has emerged as one of the most promising tools for quantifying photosynthetic... Leia maisAutor: Aspen Nielsen | Ultima atualização: 10/14/2025 | Comentários: 0
What is around you that you cannot see with your naked eye? This question might invoke images of distant galaxies, known only by state-of-the-art telescopes. Or, perhaps, you think about infrared or ultraviolet light, only visible through specialized cameras. Maybe microorganisms studied through a microscope in... Leia maisAutor: Aspen Nielsen | Ultima atualização: 09/18/2025 | Comentários: 0
Running an airport with the wrong decision support software is like trying to prepare a gourmet five-course meal with a dull knife and a camping stove. Technically, it’s possible. Operationally, it’s risky, inefficient, and far more stressful than it needs to be. Trusted by airports around the globe,... Leia maisAutor: Eric Schmidt | Ultima atualização: 08/28/2025 | Comentários: 0
Cybersecurity isn’t just a buzzword. It’s an everyday priority. In today’s world, where data privacy is critical, keeping your monitoring systems secure is just as important as keeping them accurate. That’s why we at Campbell Scientific introduced Secure by Default—an initiative designed to strengthen data... Leia maisAutor: Aspen Nielsen | Ultima atualização: 08/22/2025 | Comentários: 2
Whether you’re tracking climate change, assessing floods, monitoring glacial retreat, or making critical decisions about aircraft take-offs, temperature data play a central role. Air temperature directly influences a wide range of atmospheric and environmental conditions, including humidity, pressure, and wind patterns. Accurate temperature measurements are... Leia maisAutor: Colin Archambault | Ultima atualização: 08/19/2025 | Comentários: 0
If you're using VSPECT® technology for your vibrating wire measurements, how do you validate each measurement's quality? VSPECT technology is designed to do more than just read a number—it helps you understand the quality behind every measurement. By going beyond the natural frequency of a vibrating... Leia maisAutor: Jamie McDonald | Ultima atualização: 08/15/2025 | Comentários: 0
Floods remain one of the most damaging and fast-moving natural disasters worldwide. For emergency managers tasked with protecting lives and property, a well-designed flood warning system is not simply a tool but a critical part of their public safety infrastructure. Designing or upgrading such a system,... Leia maisAutor: Jamie McDonald | Ultima atualização: 08/08/2025 | Comentários: 0
When flooding happens, every second matters. Intense rainfall can quickly cause rivers to rise above flood stage, and the difference between property damage and a life saved often comes down to the speed and reliability of your warning system. While the original Automated Local Evaluation... Leia maisAutor: Aspen Nielsen | Ultima atualização: 07/16/2025 | Comentários: 0
As an aviation professional, when you think about weather safety, what comes to mind? Maybe you think about managing growing stacks of flights at various altitudes while anxiously awaiting clearer weather for safe landings. Or maybe you are concerned about aircraft braking performance affected by water... Leia maisAutor: Aspen Nielsen | Ultima atualização: 06/30/2025 | Comentários: 0
When you look at a spec sheet for a weather sensor such as the AtmosVue™30, you’re typically presented with a lot of numbers and technical terms. For example, these might include: Present weather outputs Background luminance measurement range Operating temperature range But what does all this actually... Leia maisAutor: Brett Hansen | Ultima atualização: 06/04/2025 | Comentários: 0
As a hydrologist or emergency manager, do you need faster, more reliable, and higher resolution data from your flood warning system? If your current system uses the ALERT protocol, now may be the time to upgrade to a system that uses the ALERT2 protocol. In... Leia maisAutor: Eric Schmidt | Ultima atualização: 04/29/2025 | Comentários: 0
When I first got into the world of instrumentation and monitoring, I quickly realized just how much jargon was floating around. It felt like there were a dozen different ways to describe the same thing. Half the time, I wasn’t sure if the person I... Leia maisAutor: Janet Albers | Ultima atualização: 03/04/2025 | Comentários: 4
Security codes are the oldest method of securing a data logger. They can effectively prevent innocent tinkering and discourage wannabe hackers—actions that could potentially wreak havoc on the integrity of your data. In this article, I’ll discuss the different security codes and how to use... Leia maisAutor: Eric Schmidt | Ultima atualização: 02/18/2025 | Comentários: 1
Just how many AM16/32B multiplexers can you really add to your CR6 Automated Monitoring Platform? At what point do you hit the limit? What is truly safe? As an Application Engineer in Campbell Scientific’s Infrastructure Group, I get a lot of customer questions about squeezing the... Leia maisAutor: Eric Schmidt | Ultima atualização: 12/17/2024 | Comentários: 0
Music has always been a part of my life—ten years of piano, six of oboe, and countless performances in bands and symphonies. So, when I joined Campbell Scientific and learned about vibrating wire sensors, my brain got excited for the musical potential. The result? Crackmeters... Leia maisAutor: Eric Schmidt | Ultima atualização: 11/05/2024 | Comentários: 3
How much is too much? Did you know that stress and strain can negatively impact your infrastructure? In this blog article, I’ll share a brief explanation of what you should know to protect the health of your critical structures. Infrastructure across the US and around the... Leia maisAutor: Eric Schmidt | Ultima atualização: 10/21/2024 | Comentários: 0
In today’s world of industrial automation, the ability to remotely monitor and control operations is more critical than ever. Imagine managing a water treatment plant, an electrical grid, or an environmental monitoring system from miles away—all without missing a beat to ensure smooth, efficient operations.... Leia maisAutor: Jacob Davis | Ultima atualização: 09/10/2024 | Comentários: 2
The Campbell Scientific Learning Center is launching as a third training option, bringing self-paced learning to our customers. I am excited for this opportunity to expand our training availability beyond our current offerings: live, in-person training and live, online training. I hope you can take advantage... Leia mais