Established in 2008, the PhenoCam Network is a collection of >700 digital cameras that take regular (~ every 30 min) pictures of ecosystem canopies around the world. The name PhenoCam comes from the combination of the words “phenology” and “camera”, because the images are an easy and effective way to study the phenology, or the timing of seasonal changes, of vegetation across diverse ecosystems. The images are available in near-real time to view on the PhenoCam website, and can also be downloaded through the phenocamapi R package, which we’ll cover in this tutorial. There are currently over 60 million images available!

View the tutorial here to Explore PhenoCam Data.