Pilot Terrestrial Vegetation Monitoring in the Southeastern United States, 2009-2010 - Data Release Report
Ron A . 2025. Pilot Terrestrial Vegetation Monitoring in the Southeastern United States, 2009-2010 - Data Release Report. National Park Service. Inventory and Monitoring Division, 1201 Oakridge Drive, Suite 150 Fort Collins, Colorado 80525-5596. https://doi.org/10.36967/2303058
Data Release Reports (DRR) are created by the National Park Service and provide detailed descriptions of valuable research datasets in a human-readable format, including the methods used to collect the data and technical analyses supporting the quality of the measurements. DRRs focus on helping others reuse data rather than presenting results, testing hypotheses, or presenting new interpretations and in-depth analyses. Pilot terrestrial vegetation monitoring occurred in eleven Southeast Coast Network (SECN) parks in 2009 and 2010 and evaluated trends in plant cover, frequency, diversity and distribution. After QA/QC, the data were processed by the Inventory and Monitoring Division (IMD) to comply with Executive Order 13642 (Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information). One data cleaning script was produced, resulting in six datasets: canopy, events, frequency, locations, shrubs and treedbh. The script was used to format the data for clarity and consistency, and to generate cleaned CSV files for the associated data package. This DRR describes the data package for the pilot terrestrial vegetation monitoring in the Southeast Coast Network in 2009 and 2010, including how and where to access the data, collection methods, processing steps, data quality evaluation, and usage notes. The Data Package this DRR refers to is: Corbett SL, Byrne MW, Ron A. 2024. Pilot Terrestrial Vegetation Monitoring in the Southeastern United States, 2009-2010 - Data Package. National Park Service. Fort Collins CO https://doi.org/10.57830/2303037