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National Ecological Observatory Network, Inc. (NEON, Inc.) is an independent 501(c)3 corporation in the United States created to manage large-scale ecological observing systems and experiments on behalf of the scientific community. NEON is an observatory managed by NEON, Inc. and is funded by the National Science Foundation. NEON itself is not a funding agency. NEON, Inc. recently completed a design review process for NEON. In late July 2011, the National Science Foundation awarded NEON, Inc. funding to being construction on the NEON project〔(NSF press release 11-157 ),"NSF Awards Construction Funding to National Ecological Observatory Network".〕 The construction phase is expected to last five to seven years, and NEON is expected to begin full operation in 2016 or later. ==Vision and Mission== The Vision of NEON, Inc. is to guide global understanding and decisions in a changing environment with scientific information about continental-scale ecology through integrated observations, experiments and forecasts. NEON, Inc.’s Mission is to design, implement, and operate the first and foremost integrated continental‐scale scientific infrastructure to enable research, discovery and education about ecological change. NEON will create a new national observatory network to collect ecological and climatic observations across the continental United States, including Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The observatory will be the first of its kind designed to detect and enable forecasting of ecological change at continental scales over multiple decades. NEON has partitioned the United States into 20 eco-climatic domains, each of which represents different regions of vegetation, landforms, climate, and ecosystem performance. Data will be collected by field technicians and passive sensors at strategically selected sites within each domain and synthesized into information products that can be used to describe changes in the nation's ecosystem through space and time. NEON data products will be freely available via a web portal. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「National Ecological Observatory Network」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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