- [Narrator] In this video,
we're gonna go through the different resources
and tools that are available on the neonscience.org website
to allow you to better understand and work with NEON data.
This is the homepage of the NEON website
and there are a variety of resources on this page
that you may be interested in.
The NEON updates or blog articles provide information
on what's going on at the observatory now,
how you can access data through partners,
different research projects that use data
and spotlights of researchers that are using data.
If you continue to scroll down,
at the bottom there is an ability to subscribe
to our quarterly newsletter
so you can get more information about what's happening
with NEON delivered to your inbox
and the ability to follow us on social media accounts
that were there to get more real time live updates
on what's happening.
We also have upcoming events highlighted
so you know what different areas
that you can get involved in NEON in person
or in virtual environments to gain training
or advance science
or get involved in other conversations in that area.
So other tools that are available on the website for you,
NEON is a nationwide network
so you may be interested in where we have field sites
so the field site map allows you
to look at the geographic spread of the sites
and also to gain more information about them.
So this is the field sites that we have
including Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico
but let's say your interested in aquatic field sites
in particular lakes.
Using the filter options,
you can filter down to different types of field sites
so that you know ones that are matching your research
or educational interests.
So you can always reset the filters on the bar
and if you're interested in information
about one particular field site,
you can go ahead and click on that icon
and click on the individual field site.
You'll also notice that every field site has a name
and a four letter code associated with it.
They don't always match like they do with MOAB
and so down here is a download field sites CSV
which provides all the information on field sites
including this key between the field site name
and the four letter code which is very useful
when you're working with the data.
So going to an individual field site page,
you'll find information about the field sites
as well as an interactive map
so you can learn more about those sites.
If you turn on the satellite layer
you can see more about the geographic area
and the land cover that's happening at those field sites.
There's also more information
about where we're collecting data at these sites.
If you click on individual plots,
it will tell you more about what the plot ID is,
where it's located and what we are collecting data on
in those individual plots.
Scrolling down you'll find more information
about the field sites.
You'll also get information about whether the site host
is allowing additional research at these sites.
If you're looking to collect data concurrently with NEON
and there's also information to contact us
if you're interested in visiting these field sites.
So in addition to where data are being collected,
you may be interested in what types of data are collected.
We collect data in three different systems
using our airborne observation platform,
our instrumented systems and our observational system
and this section under data collection
provides kind of summary information
about the types of data we collect under these categories
and how we're collecting that data.
This is a great place to start
when you're not sure exactly
what data products you're interested in
and you're wondering how NEON's collecting data.
This provides more of a summary
then you can jump to the Explore Data page
and the Data Product Details pages
to learn more about individual data products of interest.
So now that we've talked about data
we also provide more information
to help you get started using NEON data
so we have a Get Started page
as well as other information
about the data products themselves
and then in the resources section
we offer other information that will help you.
So under Code Resources, these are packages,
primarily R and Python that are built
to allow you to work with NEON data
depending on the data products of interest.
Under Data Skills, this is where we pull together
all of our training materials
so data tutorials are available for you
to learn any time of day,
online learning to work with different data products,
teaching modules that are geared more towards educators
to work with the data in their classrooms.
Our workshops allow in-person or virtual interaction
between instructors and students
to learn more about the data
and then we also offer science videos
and have collected different citizen science
and K12 activities to look at NEON-like data
if you're working with those audiences.
We also have more information for researchers
on how you can collaborate with NEON
and how you can use the NEON data
and infrastructure in your research
so with 81 field sites across the country collecting data,
NEON has a variety of different types of infrastructure
out in the field and that infrastructure is available
for researchers to use as part of their research.
This is available through our Assignable Assets
or research support program.
The Using NEON Infrastructure for Research page
details how this works
and the different types of infrastructure
that we have that you can use
and more information about how you can apply to this program
and get additional resources for it.
This can be used to collect data at NEON sites
or with the mobile deployment platform
or the airborne observation platform
to collect NEON-like data at sites
that are of interest to you.
So there are a variety of other resources
and tools available from the NEON Science website.
I encourage you to check out the different resources
that are there but these are some of the key features
that you may want to look at
to understand more about NEON and the data
and tools that are available from NEON.