Disney Wilderness Preserve NEON - United States of America

Basic Information
Platform Icon

Site Name
Disney Wilderness Preserve NEON
Short name
DSNY
Country
United States of America
Web Address
https://www.neonscience.org/field-sites/field-sites-map/DSNY
Site Manager
Guy Fausnaught
Site Description
The 12,000-acre Disney Wilderness Preserve straddles the headwaters of the Everglades ecosystem in south-central Florida. This site is seasonally wet and flooded. Remote sensing surveys of this field site collect lidar, spectrometer and high-resolution RGB camera data. The flux/meteorological tower at this site is 26' with 4 measurement levels. This site has five soil plots placed in an array within the airshed of the flux tower.
Last modified
2023-08-08 09:08:03

CC-BY-NC Logo

General Characteristics and Status
Site Status
Operational
Year Established
2014
Observed properties
Affiliation and Network Specific Information
Affiliation
GERI✔This site is a verified "GERI" member.
NEON✔ (DSNY)This site is a verified "NEON" member.
Photos
DSNY tower
DSNY tower
Geographic
View in site map
Centroid/Representative Coordinates

Latitude: 28.097935 Longitude: -81.415901

Elevation (average)
15.00msl
Elevation (min)
15.00msl
Elevation (max)
22.00msl
Download

Site information [.json]

Centroid/representative coordinates [.shp] [.kml]
Bounding Box [.shp] [.kml]
Boundaries [.shp] [.kml]
GEO-BON Biome
Terrestrial
Biome
Grasslands
Ecosystem Type
Grasslands
Flooded grasslands and savannas
Air Temperature: Average Annual
22.00°C
Precipitation Annual
1150.00mm
Geology
Soil parent materials at the DSNY site are the result of erosional and depositional processes associated with the sea level advances and retreats during the Pleistocene-Pliocene period. The geologic deposits are mapped as undifferentiated Quaternary Sedim
Vegetation
Dominant Phenology Vegetation :Andropogon virginicus, Aristida beyrichiana, Euthamia caroliniana
Soils
Major soil series are Immokalee, Hontoon, Smyrna and Myakka; these are 59 percent of the area. These soils occur on the following landforms: Flatwoods, low broad flats, slough, drainageways, depressions, and low rises.
Hydrology
The Disney Wilderness Preserve site is on the Penholoway Marine Terrace. The Marine Terraces show former sea levels and are floored with sand, clay, silt and shells, that are bounded along their inner margin by shoreline features (e.g., relict beach ridges, swales, inner lagoons, seaward facing wave-cut scraps, or sea cliffs, and offshore and bay bars).
Site Type
Platform
Design of Experimentation
mainly experimentation
Scale of Experimentation
beyond catchment scale
Design of Observation
mainly observation
Scale of Observation
entire catchment
Permanent Power Supply
Yes
Accessible All Year
Yes
Permanent Operation
Yes