FEDC: A Framework for Field Ecological Data Collection and Management

In the field ecological data collection process, lots of heterogeneous data are generated by equipments which are composed of hundreds to thousands of sensors and cameras and it is a big challenge to collect and manage these data. In this paper, we proposed a five layer framework named FEDC which can be used in the field ecological data collection and management. FEDC is a hybrid-distributed framework with some distributed properties, and it also has scalable, real-time and self-adaptive abilities. It successfully used in the ChinaFlux project and the result shows that the FEDC framework has a good performance in managing and transmitting the field ecological data.