The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a continental-size sensor network that will collect data to answer the questions "What effects do land-use and meteorological changes have on the environment?" Hundreds of sensors will be deployed over dozens of sites to measure changes in the air, soil, and water in wildlands and other locations throughout the country. This is an NSF Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction program concluding the conceptual design phase. ISI will be leading engineering design and analysis of the in-situ network in preparation for development of system prototypes.

The objective of the work during the development phase of  NEON project engineering is to perform engineering development tasks that will increase our understanding of key areas of the design and reduce risk of the overall project.  We accomplish this by building a simplified domain infrastructure and installing it in the field. This process will allow us to validate our initial selection of key technologies, develop an initial data interface, and obtain early insight in robustness and deployment issues.  These areas correspond to the key risks we see for the embedded cyberinfrastructure design and engineering activities and we expect our work to reduce the overall project risk associated with these areas.

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