The problem
The world runs on environmental data. Almost none of it is recorded together.
Weather, seismic, geomagnetic, solar, atmospheric, hydrological, oceanic and hazard data are bought by every major industry, yet they arrive fragmented across domains, providers and time bases.
The Earth is a coupled system; its instruments are not. Cross-domain analysis begins with reconciliation and ends in doubt about whether two events were truly simultaneous.
Separate providers. Separate domains. Separate time bases.
Co-located instruments. Many domains. One coherent record.
The approach
Many domains. One coherent record.
Cascadia Sentinel addresses the fragmentation at the source: a node records many Earth-system domains at one place, at one time, in one dataset.
Co-located.
A common core of instruments at every node, plus the sensors each setting calls for. A desert node has no use for ocean sensors; a coastal node does.
Synchronised.
Every instrument is disciplined to a single GNSS-referenced clock, to microsecond and sub-microsecond order, so samples from different physics align at acquisition rather than by interpolation.
Fused.
All domains land in one time-aligned dataset with a provenance trail from instrument to archive, so a cross-domain question is a query, not a project.
The network detects, characterises and validates coupled signals across domains, and is built to be replicated wherever the Earth is most instructive.
Why coherence matters
Coupled physics, measured together.
When the ground, the field, the sky and the air are recorded as one dataset, the questions change.
How does a solar event arrive at the ground: through the geomagnetic field, the ionosphere, or both, and in what order? How does a coast respond to a storm across every domain at once? Which coincidences are real? A coherent multi-domain record lets these questions be tested directly, rather than assembled from unrelated archives.
Node 1 · Rugged Point
Four domains live. Two more in commissioning.
Node 1 is installed and recording at the Rugged Point Coastal Science Observatory on the outer coast of Vancouver Island, directly above the Cascadia subduction zone. RPCSO hosts the node.
Seismometer
Ground motion at the Cascadia margin, from microseisms to regional events.
LiveMagnetometer
Variations in the geomagnetic field, from diurnal drift to storm-time disturbance.
LiveSID receiver
Sudden ionospheric disturbances driven by solar activity, observed through VLF propagation.
LiveWeather station
Solar irradiance, temperature, pressure, humidity, wind and precipitation.
LiveSolar radio telescope
Solar radio emission, the activity behind ionospheric and geomagnetic disturbance, observed directly.
CommissioningGNSS geodesy monument
Continuous, precise positioning of the ground itself: crustal deformation at the plate boundary.
Commissioning- 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
- GNSS-disciplined reference clock, distributed over PTP and NTP
Together the instruments describe the site as one system: ground, field, sky and air, sampled continuously and stored as one record, so any two observations can be compared directly.
Under evaluation for Node 1
cosmic-ray detectors · gravimetry
Built to replicate
One reference build. A global network.
Node 1 is the reference build. Its core instruments, timing chain and data model are designed to be reproduced without redesign, so that each new site adds to one coherent record rather than another silo.
Every node carries the common core. Each also carries the sensors its setting calls for, because candidate sites are chosen for what the Earth does there: subduction margins, collision fronts, the auroral zone, high desert with exceptional sky.
Prospective sites are early conversations, not commitments. Drag the globe, or select a site to centre it.
The data product
One fused record.
Every domain at a node lands in a single time-aligned dataset.
Every domain a node records shares one time base, one format and a provenance trail from instrument to archive. The result is standardised, machine-readable and ready for analysis and model training. Partners receive the aligned, validated record, not a stack of feeds to reconcile.
Data and demonstrations are available under NDA to qualified partners.
Who it's for
Ground truth for the industries that run on environmental data.
Insurance, energy and utilities, mining and infrastructure, transport, agriculture, maritime, aviation, finance, government and AI companies all buy environmental data today. Almost none of it was recorded together.
Satellite and Earth-data providers
A fixed, continuously recorded, multi-domain reference on the ground for calibrating and validating space-based observation.
Insurance and infrastructure risk
Independent, coherent environmental records for modelling exposure and for characterising events after the fact.
Energy, utilities and GNSS-dependent operations
Ground-level observation of the geomagnetic and ionospheric conditions that positioning, timing and grid operations depend on.
Defence and maritime
Persistent, multi-domain environmental sensing on remote coasts, with timing you can audit.
Research and AI
Long, aligned, multi-domain time series with provenance: fusion research and training data that cannot be scraped.
A complementary layer, not another satellite feed.
Satellites see broadly and briefly. A node sees one place continuously, across every domain at once. The network is built so the two can be compared.
Where we are
Node 1 live. The network next.
- Node 1 installed and recording at RPCSO on the Cascadia margin
- Solar radio telescope and GNSS geodesy monument in commissioning at Node 1
- Early conversations: Atacama Desert, French Pyrenees, Kathmandu Valley, Finnish Lapland, Tasmania
- Next: early-access partners and the first replicated nodes
- Todd Charter
- Founding Director
- Gerhard Anderson
- Co-founder
Request early access.
We are opening the network to a small number of partners who need coherent, multi-domain environmental data. Tell us what you are trying to measure.
Or write to contact@rpcso.com. Data and demonstrations are shared under NDA.