NEON’s automated terrestrial sampling

The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is responsible for making observations of terrestrial, aquatic, and organismal ecology in 20 different eco-climatic domains across the continent.   NEON will provide data on key local physical, climate, and chemical forcing, as well as their associated biotic responses, in an effort to inform climate change, land-use change, and invasive species.   The sheer volume of data is expected to exceed hundreds of Terabytes per year and will present challenges for data management on an unprecedented scale.   This talk will provide an overview of NEON, as a whole, while specifically focusing on NEON’s terrestrial instrumentation system.