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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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