Environmental monitoring
Etymology: monēre (lat.) = worn: something or someone that warns, an overseer
Monitoring =
someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided
= the act of observing something or to: keep watch, keep track of,
keep under surveillance or check usually for a special purpose.
You cannot recognize, understand, improve or maintain what you do not or
cannot measure.
Monitoring provides valuable tools that offer indicative measures of:
•Ecological and Environmental Resources
•Economic Development and Growth
•Social Structure and Dynamics.
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The scale of
become wisdom
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Emissions from an industrial plant
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Global Monitoring for Environment and Security GMES
Innovation in Global Public Goods
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Continuous monitoring equipment
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Example of data recording
for 1 day and for 1 year of
CO concentration
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