Insuring the Quality of the National Ecological Observatory Network's Tower Sensor Data

The National Ecological Observatory Network's Fundamental Instrument Unit (NEON-FIU) is responsible for making automated terrestrial observations at 60 different sites located within the 20 eco-domains into which NEON has partitioned the United States. FIU will collect and process data on key physical and chemical climate properties for a time period of 30 years. The sheer volume of data that will be generated from the 10's of thousands of remotely deployed sensors far exceeds that of any other observatory network or agency (i.e., > 45 Tb/year). NEON will produce high-level quality assured data products from these measurements that will be publicly accessible through NEON's data portal. Here we address the question of how to maintain the quality of our data products in near real-time. Results from plausibility testing will be presented for early temperature data collected at NEON's tower site in Sterling, CO.