That AEKOS data services are valued worldwide as a trusted, user-friendly data publishing resource supporting forecasting and reporting for terrestrial ecosystem science, environmental education and environmental management decisions.
AEKOS's value occurs on a number of fronts from its national coverage of sites across Australia contributed by its enabling partners to its deep transparency about the characteristics of the data. It is measured by the broad and temporal coverage of site data, the growth in user traffic for uploading, accessing and downloading data, the experiences of users told through data stories and the number of citations referencing AEKOS and its data.