SGER: NEON System Design, Phase II (NEON-SYSD-II)

国家生态观测站网络（NEON）等国家级环境观测系统将通过提供关键生物和化学过程的连续测量来改变环境科学。从这些测量中获得的见解将为气候变化、生物多样性、入侵物种、水和空气质量等重要主题的理论和政策提供信息。NEON将提供大陆分布的研究基础设施，通过网络基础设施联网成为一个国家研究平台。NEON国家骨干的一个基本组成部分是一套紧密集成的传感系统(即。塔和水平分布的无线传感器网络)依赖于嵌入式网络基础设施。嵌入式网络基础设施将通过数据中心服务器的“存在点（POP）”节点连接到互联网骨干网。这个基础研究系统将作为NEON的主要骨干在美国各地复制。网络基础设施的最终设计对NEON的最终设计和建设至关重要。这种嵌入式网络基础设施从未被建造过，而且设计新颖，风险高，未经测试。

AbstractNational-scale environmental observing systems, such as the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), will transform environmental science by providing continuous measurements of key biological and chemical processes. Insights derived from these measurements will inform theory and policy on important topics including climate change, biodiversity, invasive species, and water and air quality. NEON will provide continentally distributed research infrastructure networked via cyberinfrastructure into a national research platform. A fundamental component of the NEON national backbone is a tightly integrated set of sensing systems (ie. towers and horizontally distributed wireless sensor networks) reliant on embedded cyberinfrastructure. The embedded cyberinfrastructure will be connected to an internet backbone via a "point of presence (POP) node to a data center server. This fundamental research system will be replicated across the US as the primary backbone of NEON. The final design for this cyberinfrastructure is vital to the final design and construction of NEON. No such embedded cyberinfrastructure has ever been constructed and the design is novel, high risk, and untested.