Observatory Status
March 18, 2025
Week of 17 March 2025
Operations Status
Work at some field sites may be suspended due to major impacts including but not limited to natural disasters, severe weather, and extenuating circumstances.
Current restrictions to operations:
- No current restrictions
Airborne Operations
The 2025 campaign season is scheduled as below. The season commences in March with calibration flights and 2 aircraft payloads. For more information, you can find the daily flight reports here.
2025 AOP Deployment Schedule (tentative)
| Payload 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Domain | Sched Start Date | Sched End Date | Completed as scheduled |
| 11 | 23 May | 04 Jun | |
| 09 | 06 Jun | 25 Jun | |
| 18 | 03 Jul | 06 Aug | |
| 01 | 13 Aug | 04 Sep |
| Payload 3 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Domain | Sched Start Date | Sched End Date | Completed as scheduled |
| 03 (OSBS, DSNY) | 05 May | 21 May | |
| 02 | 23 May | 15 Jun | |
| 05 | 17 Jun | 09 Jul | |
| 12 | 14 Jul | 21 Jul | |
| 16 | 23 Jul | 03 Aug | |
| 10 (RMNP) | 06 Aug | 27 Aug | |
| 14 | 29 Aug | 15 Sep |
Data Products Status
Observation System (OS) Products
- The collection of OS data and samples are dependent on human operators being in the field. Thus, collections at sites where conditions result in restricted access will be impacted.
- D12 YELL - Restricted site access during annual Bear Management Area closure 2025/03/10-2025/07/01
- Includes DP IDs: DP1.1XXXX, subset of DP1.2XXXX, DP4.00131, DP4.00132
Airborne Observation Products
- Airborne Observation data collection for 2025 season will commence in March 2025 with calibration flights.
- Airborne products are collected according to the schedule above; these data are all dependent on human operators traveling extensively and being in the field.
- Includes DP IDs: DPX.3XXXX
Instrumented System Products (Updated Tuesdays)
- Most sensors continually collect and communicate data to the centralized NEON database. Regular on-site maintenance may be impacted at sites where conditions result in restricted access.
- Includes DP IDs: DPX.0XXXX (except for DP4.00131, DP4.00132), subset of DP1.2XXXX.
- Unplanned power and/or communications outages occur as a normal part of operations. Please note that communications outages typically result in delayed delivery of data rather than data loss.
- Sites currently experiencing power outages or site-wide data loss:
- D17 TEAK - Site power offline since 2025/03/16
- D17 TECR - Site power offline since 2025/01/29
- Sites currently experiencing communications outages:
- D05 STEI - Communication down since 2025/03/13
- D13 WLOU - Communication down since 2025/03/10
