The problem
Entire industries run on environmental data. Almost none of it is recorded together.
Earthquakes, weather, the magnetic field, solar activity, the state of the sky. Each comes from a different provider, measured somewhere else, stamped with a different clock. The Earth behaves as one system. The instruments watching it do not.
Different providers. Different places. Different clocks.
Same site. Every domain. One clock.
How it works
Everything measured together.
Each site carries the whole set, not one specialism: ground, magnetic field, upper atmosphere, weather and Sun, on the same patch of coast.
Everything at the same instant.
Every instrument takes its time from the same satellite-locked clock. When two readings say they happened together, they did.
Everything from one record.
Take one domain live through the API, or pull the domains and span you choose as one aligned dataset. Same record underneath, with a note of where every number came from.
Node 1 · Rugged Point
Five measurements live. Four more in commissioning.
Node 1 is installed and recording on the outer coast of Vancouver Island, directly above the fault where one tectonic plate is sliding beneath another.
- Location
- Rugged Point, outer coast of Vancouver Island · 49.96° N, 127.24° W
- Setting
- Cascadia subduction zone, where the Juan de Fuca plate descends beneath North America
- Host
- Rugged Point Coastal Science Observatory (RPCSO)
- Timing
- One satellite-locked reference clock for every instrument on site
Live now
Ground shaking
Seismometer
Quakes on the Cascadia margin, and the big ones from the far side of the planet.
LiveMagnetic field
Magnetometer
Geomagnetic storms, and the kick the Sun gives the field during a flare.
LiveUpper atmosphere
SID receiver
The electrified layer that GPS, radio and satellite signals cross on their way down.
LiveSunlight
Pyranometer
The energy arriving at the ground, and what cloud takes out of it.
LiveWeather
Weather station
Temperature, pressure, humidity, wind and rain.
LiveIn commissioning
Solar activity
Solar radio telescope
Radio emission straight from the Sun, the source of most of what disturbs the sky.
CommissioningSurface conditions
GNSS reflectometry
Soil moisture, snow and the sea surface, read from satellite signals bouncing off them.
CommissioningLand movement
GNSS geodesy monument
Millimetre-scale movement of the ground itself, as the plates grind past.
CommissioningCosmic rays
Cosmic-ray detectors
Particles from deep space, arriving at a rate that moves with the Sun.
CommissioningBuilt to repeat
One design. A global network.
Node 1 is the template. The same instruments, the same clock and the same file format get rebuilt elsewhere, so a second site adds to one record instead of starting another silo.
Every node carries that core, plus whatever its own setting calls for. Sites are chosen for what the Earth does there: plates diving beneath plates, continents colliding, the ring of sky where the aurora lives, high desert with nothing in the way.
North Norfolk and the French Pyrenees are in development. The rest are early conversations, not commitments. Drag the globe, or select a site to centre it.
A complementary layer, not another satellite feed.
A satellite sees a great deal of the world, a moment at a time. A node sees one place without blinking, across everything at once. The network is built so the two can be checked against each other.
What you get
One record. Every measurement. One clock.
Run your cursor across the chart. Every lane reads the same instant, because every lane was recorded on the same clock.
Partners receive the aligned, checked record, not a stack of feeds to reconcile. Stream a single domain from the API, or take the domains and the time span you select as one dataset. Standardised, machine-readable, and ready to go straight into analysis or model training.
Data and demonstrations are available under NDA to qualified partners.
Where we are
- Node 1 installed and recording on the Cascadia margin
- Four further measurements in commissioning at Node 1
- North Norfolk and the French Pyrenees in development
- Early conversations: Atacama Desert, Kathmandu Valley, Finnish Lapland, Tasmania
- Next: early-access partners and the first repeated nodes
- Caisey Harlingten
- Founder
- Todd Charter
- Founding Director
Request early access.
We are opening the network to a small number of partners who need environmental data recorded together, rather than assembled afterwards. Tell us what you are trying to measure.
The buyers are already there: insurers and reinsurers, grid and pipeline operators, satellite and Earth-observation companies, aviation, telecom and navigation, maritime, mining, agriculture, defence, civil protection, and the labs building environmental models.
Or write to contact@rpcso.com. Data and demonstrations are shared under NDA.