KU Field Station NEON - United States of America

The NEON site at the University of Kansas Field Station (UKFS) is a terrestrial field site located approximately 9 km north of Lawrence, KS, along an eastern deciduous forest and tallgrass prairie transition zone. The UKFS site is one of the two relocatable sites that are encompassed in the NEON Prairie Peninsula Domain, which includes the largest remaining areas of unplowed tallgrass prairie in North America. The Prairie Peninsula domain consists of grasslands, forests, and agricultural cover types. The Domain hosts four other NEON field sites, two aquatic and two terrestrial, all of which are located in Kansas. Remote sensing surveys of this field site collect lidar, spectrometer and high-resolution RGB camera data. The ...