Data Product Bundles

What is a data product "bundle"?

Each data product includes a set of related observations. All NEON data products are related to each other at some level – for example, by related protocols or timing of observations – but some data products are primarily designed to be used in the context of other products. Such data products may not be made available as stand-alone, downloadable products – rather, they can only be downloaded together with one or more other data products. In other words, a data product bundle is a data product that also contains one or more other data products, each of which is also listed in our data product catalog. 

Because of the bundling, the number of data products in the catalog exceeds the number of products that are available for download, but the downloadable products are more comprehensive and easier to use in analyses. 

Eddy Covariance Bundle

The Bundled data products - eddy covariance (DP4.00200.001) data product bundle contains the full suite of data products used to calculate ecosystem-scale fluxes of carbon, water, and energy. Many of the data products it contains are available only in the bundle. Some data products, however, like 2D wind speed and direction (DP1.00001.001), are also available independently. In addition, the bundle contains level 0’ data (inputs that are calibrated and preserved in their original measured frequency) that aren’t available in the data product catalog.

Observational System (OS) Bundles

In OS bundles, one or more data products are bundled under the name of another data product, and are only available for download under that data product. For example, the Litterfall and fine woody debris sampling (DP1.10033.001) data product includes two other data products: Litter chemical properties (DP1.10031.001) and Litter stable isotopes (DP1.10101.001). There is one unique case in which the data products Root chemical properties (DP1.10102.001) and Root stable isotopes (DP1.10099.001) data products are split into two components – data that were collected from the one-time Megapit sampling and data that have been collected thereafter periodically – each of which was then bundled into Root biomass and chemistry, Megapit (DP1.10066.001) and Root biomass and chemistry, periodic (DP1.10067.001), respectively.

Data Product Releases

Most data product bundles were created before NEON's first data release was published in January of 2021, but please carefully review the content of each bundle release prior to using.