Informatics Bits & Bytes

The MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) sensor aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites provides information about Earth's ecosystem characteristics and dynamics on a near-daily ba

The LTER Executive Board recently formed an Ad-hoc Remote Sensing Committee to review the LTER remote sensing data archive, the data requirements, and coordination and support from the LTER Network

The ecological community needs "cyberinfrastructure that enables open, stable, persistent, robust, and secure access to well-described and logically organized data", says Bill Michener (LNO), lead-

The National Science Foundation is funding a microbial biodiversity survey and inventory that will take place across all the major aquatic (marine and freshwater) Long Term Ecological Research (LTE

Last Fall, Inigo San Gil (LNO) attended the 5th Genomics Standards Consortium (GSC) workshop in the United Kingdom to represent LTER and present the Ecological Metadata Language (EML) standard and

The plan for cyberinfrastructure (CI) support for future LTER research has just been released as part of the "Decadal Science Plan for LTER".

The LTER network will reach an important milestone with regard to data documentation this summer: All LTER sites will be contributing metadata standardized in Ecological Metadata Language (EML) to

Most ecologists will agree on the necessity and importance of synthesis to address new ecological questions, yet synthesizing desired data products from a diverse array of complex datasets in a rob

The LTER Network Office (LNO) is coordinating access by LTER sites to historical and recent satellite reconnaissance data, as well as MODIS time series subsets and imagery from the International Sp

Accessibility improved through metadata standardization.

The LTER Network Office (LNO) maintains a data archive on remote sensing that provides researchers within the LTE