Open Monitoring Systems Working Group

The Open Monitoring Systems Working Group is a subsidiary body established by the OSGeo Open Geoscience Committee to advance in the topic of Open monitoring system for in-situ observations.

= WG Members =
 * Co-Chair: Yann Chemin
 * Co-Chair: Massimiliano Cannata
 * Jeff McKenna
 * Venkatesh Raghavan
 * Zoltan Siki Geo4All Lab Budapest
 * Luca Delucchi
 * Niroshan Bandara
 * Bianca Federici
 * Ilaria Ferrando
 * Domenico Sguerso
 * Sarawut Ninsawat
 * please add your name here

= Objectives =

Draft

The focus of the work of the Working Group is:
 * the condivision of experiences on open monitoring systems for in-situ earth observations.
 * the establishing of a network for implementing joint programmes to advance in this topic

= Current activities =

Workshops
 * 1) A 2-days training program on mobile weather stations Sri Lanka 22-23 March 2018
 * 2) A 2-days training program on mobile weather stations Sri Lanka 2017
 * 3) Fully Open Monitoring System FOSS4G Paris 2017
 * 4) GFOSS.it 2017
 * 5) Building fully open climatic monitoring system
 * 6) OGRS Perugia 2016
 * 7) FOSS4G Bonn 2016
 * 8) UR Venice 2016
 * 9) FOSS4G Seoul 2015
 * 10) OGRS Helsinki 2014
 * 11) FOSS4G-Europe 2014
 * 12) FOSS4G-Asia 2014

Articles/Press/TV
 * 1) DailyMirror 2017
 * 2) DailyNews 2017
 * 3) Sirasa TV News 2017
 * 4) OGRS 2016
 * 5) Crisis Response 2016
 * 6) UR 2016
 * 7) SciDev 2015
 * 8) Reuters 2015
 * 9) Rainwater Harvesting Symposium 2015

Online Resources
 * 1) IstSOS Wiki
 * 2) OSHW weather station manuals/docs
 * 3) GitHub for OSHW weather stations