Extreme Application Series
50+ years
of field-proven measurement solutions
8,810 m
highest weather station on Earth
~6,000 m
highest weather station in Western Hemisphere
Why We Go to the Monitoring Extremes
The paradox of extreme monitoring is simple: the most challenging environments and conditions often have the most to teach us about our planet. Most instrumentation, however, cannot hold up to these conditions, meaning that they often are under-monitored or unmonitored.
From remote mountain ranges that regulate water supplies for millions of people living downstream to extreme storms that give insight into how we can better predict—and warn about—severe weather events, the only way we can truly understand the world around us is to continuously measure it.
This requires instruments that survive where others cannot. Since 1974, Campbell Scientific has been building instruments that continuously record some of the world's harshest environments.
The Extreme Application Series
Field-Proven Monitoring Systems Performing Reliably in the World's Most Challenging Environments
In the harshest environments on Earth, Campbell Scientific enables scientific discovery by providing rugged measurement instruments that can hold up to the very extremes they are monitoring. This extreme application series showcases how, in completely uncontrolled conditions, Campbell Scientific data loggers, sensors, and unified systems help advance our collective understanding of hydrology, climatology, and weather patterns.
Field-Proven Environmental Monitoring: From the Everyday to the Extremes
In extreme environments, conditions exceed the limits of what most instruments can capture. Wind topples mounting structures, often destroying measurement equipment in the process. Dangerous or remote siting can prevent regular maintenance. Communications infrastructure may be limited. Temperature drops can damage power systems.
The monitoring systems in the extreme application series are designed around those realities, with power management, extreme weatherproofing, and hardware built for long-term, unattended deployments in the most demanding conditions on the planet.
Available to researchers and monitoring networks around the world, many of the data loggers, sensors, and other instruments used in this series are part of Campbell Scientific product lines. These extreme deployments demonstrate the products' reliability, durability, and quality when conditions are anything but controlled.
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From everyday environments to the extremes, our teams are happy to help you find the right solution for your application.