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NEON Updates

Calibrating Soil Sensors? It's a Dirty Job, But We Had To Do It

The amount of moisture in the soil is one of the critical variables that influence the overall makeup and diversity of the local ecosystem. To ensure data quality and consistency across 47 field sites, scientists had to carefully calibrate soil moisture sensors. Here's what they did—and why it matters to the NEON community.

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NEON-QUBES Faculty Mentoring Network Brings Quantitative Methods to Undergraduate Classrooms

A new collaboration offers mentorship opportunities for undergraduate faculty and hands-on activities to help them bring real-world data into the classroom.

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Remote Sensing Data Science Challenge Yields Positive Results

The NEON project is producing a vast treasure trove of open access airborne remote sensing data. Can computer algorithms help ecologists make sense of it all? A team of ecologists and data scientists at the University of Florida thought so. To accelerate the process, they initiated a data science challenge.

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Data Skills Tutorials

Interested in improving your R and Python skills or learning how to work with our remote sensing data? Explore our free, self-paced online tutorials.

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Information for Researchers

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