Environmental Data

As mentioned in my very first blog, three parties should be interacting. Interacting, in other words is talking or communicating each other regarding environmental problems or issues. When they do communication, they have to tell the conditions of the present status of the environment and how it should be kept at a certain quality with minimum impacts.

Thus, all the parties must know the status of the quality of the environment at present. The quality of the environment is usually described in the form of numbers (data), or descriptions by field survey (site visits and interviews). And they discussed about the future scenario of impacts by the polluter based on the data and descriptions collected systematically.

Measurements of physical, chemical, and biological values of the environment are to be collected carefully. At present there are automatic data recording systems or data acquisition systems (DAQ) with sophisticated sensors to records environmental quality. The DAQ systems are available in the market at reasonable cost. It is essential that what environmental data should be monitored and how to apply these data to reveal the status of the environment.