According to the monitoring methods, automatic weather stations are divided into: hand-held weather stations, vehicle-mounted weather stations, wireless telemetry weather stations, wired telemetry weather stations, and portable weather stations.

1. Handheld weather station: The hand-held weather station is the smallest weather station. It is composed of hand-held instruments and sensors. It is easy to carry and the measured data is directly displayed on the spot. However, such weather stations generally do not have remote functions, and there are fewer sensors connected, and the connection cannot be expanded.

2. Vehicle-mounted weather station: This is a mobile observing weather station specially designed for emergency environment testing equipment such as vehicles and ships. The number of connected sensors is relatively small.

3. Wireless telemetry weather station : The most advanced weather station is the weather station. It uses the Internet of Things mode and GPRS data transmission mode to upload data to the network platform. Any place with a network can log in to the platform at any time. Weather station site data. And there is a warning function for SMS, which can expand and connect many sensors. This type of weather station is also known as an unmanned weather station. For example , the model of STEPS in Germany is the weather station of T-Warner , which is based on this technology.

4. Wired telemetry weather station: This is the monitoring method of the traditional weather station. The sensing part is separated from the receiving and processing part by several tens of meters to several kilometers, and is transmitted by wired communication circuit. It is the sensor that transmits data to the PC by connecting the data line . This method is suitable for a manned area.

5. Portable weather station: It is used to monitor the outdoor climate, and the data is directly transmitted to the data collector. The data collector stores the data and periodically goes to the field data. The biggest advantage of this type of weather station is that it is easy to move and the cost is relatively low.

The automatic weather station is divided into: soil moisture monitoring station, automatic rainfall station, automatic water level monitoring station, rain water monitoring station and multi-element automatic weather station according to its functions .

1. Soil moisture monitoring station : It is mainly used to monitor drought and flood monitoring stations. The sensors connected to it are mainly soil moisture sensors. For example , the SW3000 of STEPS in Germany is a typical soil moisture monitoring station.

2, automatic rainfall station : As the name suggests, it is mainly monitoring stations for monitoring rainfall, the main connected sensor is the rain sensor.

3. Automatic water level monitoring station: It is mainly a monitoring station for monitoring water level, mainly connected to water level sensor.

4. Rainwater monitoring station : The automatic rain gauge station and the water level monitoring station are combined, and two kinds of sensors are connected to one monitoring station .

5. Multi-element automatic weather station: A monitoring station that can monitor various factors such as wind speed, wind direction, temperature and humidity, rainfall, total radiation and atmospheric pressure. Can be connected to a variety of sensors.

Automatic weather stations are divided into: farmland climate observatory, traffic weather station, marine environmental meteorological station, hydrometeorological station, forest fire risk monitoring station, scientific research weather station.