Prototype Data Sharing

Welcome to NEON's Prototype Data Sharing (PDS) system. The PDS allows you to browse various "prototype" data sets that are available for limited use. It is important to understand that the data, metadata, and file formats distributed do not necessarily correspond to those planned for Operations.

The grid below lists the datasets that are currently available, along with descriptions of their spatial and temporal range as well as format and size. You may sort the list by any of the columns by clicking on its heading. Entering search terms in the box provided will immediately filter the list to show only those items that match, regardless of the column in which the match appears.

To request access to any of the datasets, please click the appropriate [Request] link below. You will then be presented with a page containing the detailed metadata associated with the data and instructions of how to request the data for your use.

Link Description Contact Size Format Notes
Request Reaeration & Discharge Rating Curve Data K. Goodman 20.5 MB .xls Single archive file contining .xls files for water chemestry, reaeration rates, and discharge rating curves.
Request Leaf Area Index & Vegetation Structure Data from D3 C. Meier 500 KB ASCII (csv) Single archive file containing individual data files (LAI & VS for Ordway-Swisher and Donaldson sites).
Request NEON Terrestrial Insect DNA Barcode Library C. Gibson 1.9 GB jpg; ab1; xls CO1 gene reads (images and both traces) and associated metadata, averaging 1.2 MB per specimen.
Request Soil Temperature And Soil Moisture Data From NEON Candidate Sites E. Ayres 1.2 MB .txt (tab delimited) Single archive file containing 60 site files each detailing ~130 locations in the expected airshed.
Request Pathfinder Discrete LIDAR, Donaldson Plantation T. Kampe 5.5 GB .las 17 separate flightline archives, averaging 340 MB each.
Request Pathfinder Discrete LIDAR, Ashley Prairie T. Kampe 1.9 GB .las 10 separate flightline archives, averaging 190 MB each.
Request Pathfinder Spectrometer, OSBS Morning Flight T. Kampe 18 GB ENVI 16 separate flightline archives, averaging 1.2 GB each.
Request Pathfinder Discrete LIDAR, OSBS T. Kampe 15 GB .las 33 separate flightline archives, averaging 450 MB each.
Request Pathfinder Spectrometer, OSBS Mid-day Flight T. Kampe 21 GB ENVI 16 separate flightline archives, averaging 1.4 GB each.
Request Pathfinder Spectrometer, Donaldson Plantation T. Kampe 11 GB ENVI 14 separate flightline archives, averaging 800 MB each.
Request Pathfinder Discrete LIDAR, Aquatic Sites T. Kampe 4.2 GB .las 18 separate flightline archives, averaging 233 MB each.
Request Pathfinder Ancillary Ground Data T. Kampe 10.1 MB various Atmospheric, meteorological, and spectral reflectance measurements collected on the ground during the Pathfinder Campaign.


The National Ecological Observatory Network is a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation and managed under cooperative agreement by NEON, Inc. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant #DBI-0752017. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.