Drones and mounted cameras monitoring wildfire ignitions. Satellites detecting areas of deforestation and reforestation or the transport of agents through ocean currents. Weather stations tracking humidity and rainfall surrounding monocrops. Video cameras poised to capture evidence of rare or threatened species, while bodies and wearable medical devices register the presence and passage of industrial pollutants. Sensors and modes of sensing are part of infrastructures that monitor and mobilize environments, constituting atmospheres of data, knowledge production, and world-making (Gabrys 2019). These ‘sense ecologies’ are differentially charged with promise when imagined and enacted (Spackman and Burlingame 2018), sometimes with expectations that they might deliver a world without surprises (Masco 2014). In practice, the promise of recent and new environmental sensing technologies are highly ambivalent. Their proliferation has been crucial to projects that hold powerful state and non-state actors to account, while (often concurrently) being enlisted as vectors for state securitization, targeted discrimination, corporatization and neoliberal intrusion (Mansfield 2008). Whatever their use, new sensing technologies are powerful, often compromised (Liboiron 2017), and are increasingly widespread means for imagining, constituting and intervening in environments. This open panel seeks contributions that examine new techno-imaginaries of environmental surveillance, including (but not limited to) analyses of sense ecologies and their ‘good’ or ‘bad’ relations, sites and practices of sensing, the promises of sensing technologies, ecologies of attuned sensing, distributed sensing networks, and the privatisation of sense ecologies. 
References:
Gabrys, Jennifer. 2019. Sensors and Sensing Practices: Reworking Experience across Entities, Environments, and Technologies. Science, Technology & Human Values 44 (5):723-736.
Liboiron, Max. 2017. Compromised agency: The case of BabyLegs. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 3, 499-527
Mansfield, Becky, ed. 2008. Privatization: property and the remaking of nature-society relations. Oxford: Blackwell.
Masco, Joseph. 2014. The theater of operations: National security affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Spackman, Christy, and Burlingame, Gary. A. 2018. Sensory politics: the tug-of-war between potability and palatability in municipal water production. Social Studies of Science, 48(3): 350-371.