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NEON data skills provides free and open materials that support the scientific 
use of large spatio-temporal data. It is managed by theEducation team at 
the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) in Boulder, Colorado. NEON 
provides free and open data for 30 years, to support the study of ecological 
change.


## About Our Materials

* All materials posted on this site are designed for instruction & self-paced 
education use. Please feel free to use them for non-commercial purposes! 
* There is a comments section below each tutorial/page on this site. Please 
comment on things that you think need to be clarified, fixed, or adjusted. 
* Please share ideas you have for other data activities with us. 
* We welcome resources that you think might be useful additions to our 
materials. Please share them with us.


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permalink: /about/
title: About NEON Data Skills
tagline: NEON Education, Characterizing Vegetation
tags: [ ]
modified: 07-12-2014
comments: true
image:
  feature: /banners/aboutBanner.png
  credit:
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NEON data skills provides free and open materials that support the scientific 
use of large spatio-temporal data. It is managed by theEducation team at 
the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) in Boulder, Colorado. NEON 
provides free and open data for 30 years, to support the study of ecological 
change.


## About Our Materials

* There is a comments section below each tutorial/page on this site. Please 
comment on things that you think need to be clarified, fixed, or adjusted. 
* Please share ideas you have for other data activities with us. 
* We welcome resources that you think might be useful additions to our 
materials. Please share them with us.

## Licensing & Usage

We encourage you to use these resources for educational purposes. All content is 
covered by this 
<a href="http://www.neonscience.org/about/terms-of-use" target="_blank">Terms of Use</a>. 
If you use the content elsewhere, please cite appropriately. We suggest the following citation
formats: 

* **Tutorials**: Authors (Year) Title. National Ecological Observatory Network, courtesy: Battelle. Retrieved on: Date.  
* **Videos**: National Ecological Observatory Network. (year month day released). Title of video [Video]. Courtesy: Battelle. Retrieved from  < URL >.
* **Data Teaching Subsets**: National Ecological Observatory Network (Year) Teaching Data Subset:File Name. Courtesy: Battelle. URL. Retrieval date.  

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