SAEON facilitates and conducts research through a number of platforms and these have grown into a diverse array of sites, instruments, infrastructure, datasets, models and staff, widely distributed across both marine and terrestrial environments. SAEON platforms enable researchers to conduct research that is critical for detecting, understanding and predicting environmental change. The SAEON platforms are managed by staff located at seven nodes and a national office.
SAEON manages a number of long term observation platforms spread across South Africa. The colour of each icon represent which terrestrial SAEON node is responsible for management and data collection.