Completion of the NEON Cyber Infrastructure Construction-Ready Design

Neon，Inc.获得了一笔赠款，用于敲定国家生态观测网络(NEON)最终设计的网络基础设施部分。霓虹灯是一个大陆研究平台，它将把我们对生物圈的理解扩展到区域和大陆范围。霓虹灯将是一种共享用途吗？实地研究平台部署了仪表塔和传感器阵列、哨点测量、遥感能力、自然历史档案以及数据分析、建模、可视化和预测设施，所有这些都联网到网络基础设施主干上。这项请求支持的活动是：(1)制定详细设计，作为为建造霓虹灯设施做好准备的要求的一部分；(2)利用传感器和网络基础设施原型的实地实施来测试和验证设计组件。拟议的工作将确定确保准确和精确测量所需的参数，以期对科学要求有一个全面、清晰、透彻和有充分记录的了解，以此作为制定对传播与信息部门和业务支助架构需求的全面说明的基础。该项目将设法在施工之前及早查明和解决潜在的关键问题，以最大限度地减少在实施或运营开始期间或之后需要改变设计的时间和材料成本。数据产品、测量、传感器之间的复杂关系，以及从重大挑战问题到研究要求的流程，将通过复杂的分析以及与霓虹灯科学人员、CI团队、运营人员以及外部科学、工程合作者和设备和软件供应商的高度合作来记录下来。

NEON, Inc. is awarded a grant to finalize the cyberinfrastructure component of the final design for the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). NEON is a continental research platform that will extend our understanding of the biosphere to regional and continental scales. NEON will be a ?shared-use? research platform of field deployed instrumented towers and sensor arrays, sentinel measurements, remote sensing capabilities, natural history archives, and facilities for data analysis, modeling, visualization, and forecasting, all networked onto a cyberinfrastructure backbone. Activities supported under this request are to (1) produce a detailed design as part of the requirements to establish readiness for construction of the NEON facility and (2) test and validate the design components with field implementations of sensors and cyberinfrastructure prototypes. The proposed work will define the parameters required to assure accurate and precise measurements with the goal of gaining a complete, clear, thorough and well-documented understanding of the science requirements as the foundation for developing a comprehensive description of the needs for the CI and operational support architectures. The project will seek to identify and address potential critical issues well before construction to minimize the costs in time and materials associated with any necessity of changing the design during or after the commencement of implementation or operations. The complexity of the relationships between data products, measurements, sensors, and the flow-down from Grand Challenge questions to research requirements will be documented with sophisticated analysis and a high degree of collaboration with NEON scientific staff, the CI team, operations staff as well as external scientific, engineering collaborators and equipment and software vendors.