A Glimpse on Environmental Probes

Environmental systems and landscapes are extremely complex systems whose observation is difficult, resulting in incomplete observations scattered in time and space with respect to relevant factors. They are ever changing systems far from thermo-dynamical equilibrium. Moreover, the nature of these observations typically varies from one environmental sphere to all others. We address the problem of obtaining systematic and extensive enough observations about these systems to build reliable dynamical models of them, focusing on long term behavior, adaptation, and sustainability.