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NEON is a U.S. National Science Foundation facility collecting long-term open access ecological data across the United States and Puerto Rico to study ecosystem changes.
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NEON provides repeat high-resolution airborne remote sensing data at 81 field sites, including Canopy Height Models, Digital Elevation Models, and RGB Camera Imagery.
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The dataset includes hyperspectral VSWIR data products such as Surface Bidirectional Reflectance and Surface Directional Reflectance with 426 bands.
The U.S. National Science Foundation's National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a continental-scale observation facility operated by Battelle and designed to collect long-term open access ecological data to better understand how U.S. ecosystems are changing. In addition to in situ data products, NEON provides repeat high-resolution airborne remote sensing data at 81 terrestrial and aquatic field sites throughout the United States and Puerto Rico for ecological research and monitoring.
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NEON Canopy Height Model (CHM)
Height of the top of canopy above bare earth (Canopy Height Model; CHM). The CHM is derived from the NEON LiDAR point cloud and is generated by creating a continuous surface of canopy height estimates across the entire spatial domain of the LiDAR survey. The … airborne canopy forest forest-biomass lidar neon -
NEON Digital Elevation Model (DEM)
Digital models of the surface (DSM) and terrain (DTM) derived from NEON LiDAR data. DSM: Surface features (topographic information with vegetation and man-made structures present). DTM: Bare earth elevation (topographic information with vegetation and man-made structures removed). Images are given in meters above mean sea … airborne dem elevation-topography forest lidar neon -
NEON RGB Camera Imagery
High resolution Red-Green-Blue (RGB) orthorectified camera images mosaicked and output onto a fixed, uniform spatial grid using nearest-neighbor resampling; spatial resolution is 0.1 m. The digital camera is part of a suite of instruments on the NEON Airborne Observation Platform (AOP) that also includes a … airborne forest highres neon neon-prod-earthengine orthophoto -
NEON Surface Bidirectional Reflectance
The NEON AOP Surface Bidirectional Reflectance is a hyperspectral VSWIR (visible to shortwave infrared) data product, containing 426 bands spanning wavelengths from ~380 nm to 2510 nm. Reflectance is scaled by a factor of 10000. Wavelengths between 1340-1445 nm and 1790-1955 nm are set to … airborne forest hyperspectral neon neon-prod-earthengine publisher-dataset -
NEON Surface Directional Reflectance
The NEON AOP Surface Directional Reflectance is a hyperspectral VSWIR (visible to shortwave infrared) data product, containing 426 bands spanning wavelengths from ~380 nm to 2510 nm. Reflectance is scaled by a factor of 10000. Wavelengths between 1340-1445 nm and 1790-1955 nm are set to … airborne forest hyperspectral neon neon-prod-earthengine publisher-dataset