<p>The term &#8220;SMART Monitoring&#8221; is often used in digital projects to survey and analyze data flows in near- or realtime. The term is also adopted in the project Digital Earth (DE) which was jointly launched in 2018 by the eight Helmholtz centers of the research field Earth and Environment (E&E) within the framework of the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Within DE, the &#8220;SMART monitoring&#8221; sub-project aims at developing workflows and processes to make scientific parameters and the related datasets SMART, which means <strong>s</strong>pecific, <strong>m</strong>easurable, <strong>a</strong>ccepted, <strong>r</strong>elevant, and <strong>t</strong>rackable (SMART).</p><p>&#8220;SMART Monitoring&#8221; in DE comprises a combination of hard- and software tools to enhance the traditional sequential monitoring approach - where data are step-by-step analyzed and processed from the sensor towards a repository - into an integrated analysis approach where information on the measured value together with the status of each sensor and possible auxiliary relevant sensor data in a sensor network are available and used in real-time to enhance the sensor output concerning data accuracy,&#160; precision, and data availability. Thus, SMART Monitoring could be defined as a computer-enhanced monitoring network with automatic data flow control from individual sensors in a sensor network to databases enhanced by automated (machine learning) and near real-time interactive data analyses/exploration using the full potential of all available sensors within the network. Besides, &#8220;SMART monitoring&#8221; aims to help for a better adjustment of sensor settings and monitoring strategies in time and space in iterative feedback.</p><p>This poster presentation will show general concepts, workflows, and possible visualization tools based on examples that support the SMART Monitoring idea.</p>