Monitoring program Environmental monitoring that is conducted according to a formal plan that may reflect the overall objectives of an organization, references specific strategies that help deliver the objectives and details of specific projects or tasks, and that contains a listing of what is being monitored, how that monitoring is taking place, and the time-scale over which monitoring should take place. Definition adapted from Wikipedia. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_monitoring. ODM2 Directive Type Controlled Vocabulary ODM2 Working Group A vocabulary for describing types of directives under which observations are made. Examples include projects, monitoring programs, campaigns, etc.