Using the Data

Montana Weather Stations

Students involved in the UTRAC program can monitor weather and climate data collected in their school yard and compare it to other schools. Kids can test hypotheses by monitoring multiple sites. Montana schools and organizations participating in the UTRAC program are visible on the Netatmo public map.

National and International Weather Stations

View all of the public netatmo weather stations around the country and around the world.

High school programmers constructed a hardware prototype and developed the computer code to take the soil moisture signals and upload them to Wifi through a backend data engine. MSU scientists and the Children’s Museum are still working on quantifying the accuracy and durability of the sensors.

An up-close look at the Arduino microcontroller inside of the soil moisture sensors. Each probe contains an Arduino microcontroller and is currently powered by rechargeable batteries.