environmental sensing, monitoring, data collection, and data processing systems, namely, radio base stations for data collection networks using satellite, interrogated radio or modem telemetry, data receivers and demodulars for use in environmental monitoring systems used to monitor weather conditions, broadcast flood warnings, and predict forest fire danger ratings, computer interface modules for use in environmental monitoring systems, satellite transmitters, telephone modems, VHF radios, weather station platforms comprising a soil moisture sensor, solar panel, air temperature and humidity sensors, wind direction sensor, wind speed sensor, precipitation sensor, a datalogger, a satellite antenna, data acquisition motherboards, network controller and interface software, graphics and visualization software for use in satellite modem and radio networks, liquid pressure transducers, shaft encoders, ceilometer, dataloggers, pyroradiometer, hygrothermometers, netradiometers, water quality meters, gas transducers, lightening detectors, optical rain gauges, thunderstorm detectors, solar radiation shields for use in protecting temperature and humidity sensors from direct sun and rain, atmospheric visibility sensors, wind speed and direction sensors, soil moisture and temperature sensors, barometric pressure sensors, liquid precipitation sensors, hydrocarbon sensors, liquid evaporation sensors, electrical and heat conductivity sensors, water level sensors, snow depth sensors, satellite antennas, permanent and portable meteorological towers, guyed towers, free standing towers and tripod towers all for use in environmental measurement systems