Certification guidelines for Inventory and Monitoring data products
National Park Service. 2016. Certification guidelines for Inventory and Monitoring data products. National Park Service, Inventory and Monitoring Division. Fort Collins, Colo.
Guidance document that provides data processing levels and associated definitions that should be applied to data sets resulting from natural resource monitoring performed by the Inventory and Monitoring Program. The document also provides guidelines for publishing and attributing data sets in the IRMA Data Store. Adhering to the guidance ensures that end users of data sets can determine the data's suitability for use, and understand the level and extent of quality assurance and quality control procedures performed on the data.
- Type
- Generic Document
- Authors
- National Park Service
- Date of Issue
- 2016-02-10
- Publisher
- National Park Service, Inventory and Monitoring Division
- Units
- IMD
- Keywords
- data certification, data processing level, data set, dataset, DO 11B, dpl, monitoring, QAP, quality assurance, quality control, validation, verification