Data Products

NEON is designed to enable continental scale analysis and forecasting in ecology and related disciplines. The observatory will provide physical infrastructure for data collection, but also information infrastructure that will be presented as NEON data products. This includes high-level data products and basic calibrated data products.

NEON has developed an initial catalog of high-level scientific data products that will provide synthesized information to ecologists, other scientists, educators, citizens, and decision makers. Currently, there are 117 high-level data products in the initial catalog that are grouped into six data suites: Bioclimate, biodiversity, biogeochemistry, ecohydrology, infectious disease, and land use change. This dynamic catalog will change as the state of ecological science advances.

NEON is also developing a catalog of basic calibrated data products that will be used primarily by specialists. The 584 entries in this catalog will be relatively stable throughout the lifetime of the observatory. The basic calibrated data are produced and organized by the NEON science sub-systems.