WEFE NEXUS OBSERVATORY
Transforming farms into environmental observatories.
WEFEX is a distributed monitoring platform designed to understand how water, energy, food production, and ecosystems interact across agricultural landscapes.What is WEFEX?
WEFEX is a field-based observatory system that combines environmental sensing, networked data infrastructure, and long-term monitoring to generate real-world insight across interconnected resource systems.
From farms to observatories
Each WEFEX site operates as an instrumented node within a larger observatory network. Together, these sites create a shared monitoring system that supports site-level analysis, cross-site comparison, and long-term environmental understanding.
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Nodes
What WEFEX measures
The observatory integrates multiple environmental and system-level data streams to reveal how resource dynamics unfold under real-world conditions.
Climate
Temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind, and solar radiation.
Soil
Moisture and temperature across multiple depths and field locations.
Water
Irrigation flow, pressure, system behavior, and water-use patterns.
Energy
Pump demand, system performance, and energy-water relationships.
Groundwater
Well-level trends and signals related to long-term resource pressure.
Crops
Field conditions and agricultural indicators observed over time.
Built with farmers
WEFEX is grounded in partnership. Farmers who host observatory nodes are not passive data sources — they are essential collaborators in how the system is built, interpreted, and sustained.