This project, called NEON, should revolutionize the study of ecology, and with it global warming.
Once this network is completed, in 2016 if all goes well, 15,000 sensors will be collecting more than 500 types of data, including temperature, precipitation, air pressure, wind speed and direction, humidity, sunshine, levels of air pollutants such as ozone, the amount of various nutrients in soils and streams, and the state of an area’s vegetation and microbes.
I just can’t believe they were able to get $400+ million in funding for this project.
