Coastal Monitoring Network Design

Create a plan to design, deploy, and govern a network of coastal sensing assets (including buoys, tide gauges, and satellite data feeds) that provides reliable, real-time environmental information to government agencies, researchers, and the public. Specify system architecture, data standards, communication protocols, maintenance regimes, and funding models. Describe how data will be integrated into decision processes for fisheries management, pollution response, coastal protection, and climate adaptation. Include governance for data access, privacy, interoperability, and a set of scenario-based tests to evaluate reliability, resilience, and cost-effectiveness over time.