Perspectives on New Data II

Highlights

• We reviewed data collection and research at the intersection of biodiversity, instrumentation, and machine learning at NEON sites.
• We surveyed methods that have been developed at other locations but could potentially be employed at NEON sites.
• We elaborated on five fruitful future paths for automated biodiversity measurement at NEON sites.
• I mainly contributed to discussing the path of expanded remote and ground-based measurements for plant biodiversity.

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Examples of phenology image and land–water interface image from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and Posey Creek NEON sites, both taken on Nov 1 2019.