Mount Burr Wetland Restoration

The Mount Burr Wetland Restoration project applies open environmental data and community monitoring to support the restoration of wetlands in the Mount Burr region of South Australia’s South East.

The project brings together landholders, conservation groups and the Growing Data Foundation to monitor wetland health using low-cost IoT sensors deployed via The Things Network. Data on water levels, salinity and wildlife activity is made openly available to inform restoration decisions.

The project

Sensor nodes installed around the wetland edges transmit real-time readings to an open data platform. Volunteer monitors, land managers and researchers can access the data to track restoration progress and identify issues early.

The tech

The project uses LoRaWAN sensor nodes, The Things Network infrastructure and open-source data dashboards. All collected data is published under a Creative Commons licence.

About

The Growing Data Foundation facilitated the project as part of its commitment to applying open data and community technology to environmental challenges in regional South Australia.