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The goal of dataspice-tutorial is a practical exercise in creating metadata for an example field collected data product using packagedataspice.

• Understand basic metadata and why it is important
• Understand where and how to store them
• Understand how they can feed into more complex metadata objects.

• Tutorial

• Introductory slides

Packagedataspice makes it easier for researchers to create basic, lightweight and concise metadata files for their datasets. Metadata fields are based onschema.org

This data product contains the quality-controlled, native sampling resolution data from in-situ measurements of live and standing dead woody individuals and shrub groups, from all terrestrial NEON sites with qualifying woody vegetation. Theexact measurements collected per individual depend on growth form, and these measurements are focused on:

• enabling biomass and productivity estimation,
• estimation of shrub volume and biomass
• calibration / validation of multiple NEON airborne remote-sensing data products.

In general, comparatively large individuals that are visible to remote-sensing instruments are mapped, tagged and measured, and other smaller individuals are tagged and measured but not mapped. Smaller individuals may be subsampled according to a nested subplot approach in order to standardize the per plot sampling effort.

Structure and mapping data are reportedper individual per plot; sampling metadata, such asper growth form sampling area (m²) or National Land Cover Database Vegetation Type Name (NLCD class) are reportedper plot.

For additional details, see protocols:

• NEON.DP1.10098/NEON.DP1.10045: NEON User Guide to Woody Plant Vegetation Structure (NEON.DP1.10098) and Non- herbaceous Perennial Vegetation Structure (NEON.DP1.10045)

• NEON.DOC.000987vG: TOS Protocol and Procedure: Measurement of Vegetation Structure, and Science Design

• NEON.DOC.000914: TOS Science Design for Plant Biomass, Productivity and Leaf Area Index.

The data are a trimmed subset of data downladed from theNEON data portal after filtering for:

• time periods between2015-06 -2016-06

• locations within NEON Domain areaD01: Northeast

Filter returned data from2 sites from2015-6 to2015-11.

Plot level data

Individual level data

Citation

National Ecological Observatory Network. 2018. Data Products: DP1.10098.001. Provisional data downloaded fromhttp://data.neonscience.org on 2018-05-04. Battelle, Boulder, CO, USA

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