Earth Observation Networks (EONs): Finding the Right Balance

David B Lindenmayer; Gene E Likens; Jerry F Franklin

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2017.10.008

Earth Observation Networks (EONs): Finding the Right Balance

Trends Ecol Evol. 2018 Jan;33(1):1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.10.008. Epub 2017 Nov 2.

Authors

David B Lindenmayer¹, Gene E Likens², Jerry F Franklin³

Affiliations

¹ Fenner School of Environment & Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY 12545, USA; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
³ School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

PMID: 29103761
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.10.008

Abstract

Earth observation networks (EONs) are an emerging, surveillance-based approach to environmental monitoring and research that are fundamentally different than traditional question-driven, experimentally designed approaches. There is an urgent need to find an optimal balance between these approaches and to develop new integrated initiatives that take advantage of key features of them both.

Keywords: funding for monitoring and research; question-based monitoring; surveillance monitoring.

MeSH terms

Earth, Planet*
Environmental Monitoring / methods*