NEON AOP Field Sampling: Site Locations and Species Cover in East River, CO 2018
by K. Dana Chadwick / Stanford University
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Description
Field sampling data from the 2018 National Ecological Observatory Network Airborne Observation Platform survey in Gunnison County, Colorado. The data package contains location, metadata, and species composition for sites across the East River, Washington Gulch, Slate River, and Coal Creek watersheds, covering meadow, shrub, and tree ecosystems. It was authored by K. Dana Chadwick of Stanford University.
Use Cases
Training species distribution models based on field-observed species composition.
Validating airborne imaging spectroscopy and lidar data products using ground-truth site locations.
Analyzing ecological patterns across meadow, shrub, and tree sampling sites mentioned in the description.
Strengths
Data is linked to a specific, well-documented airborne survey (NEON AOP 2018).
Species vouchers are preserved in a herbarium and accessible via an online portal.
Spatial coverage includes multiple watersheds and ecosystem types as described.
Limitations
Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Vector files are derived from a specific AOP mosaic and their use with other datasets requires evaluation.
Provenance
Source
National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Airborne Observation Platform (AOP) survey.
Collection Method
Field sampling conducted during the 2018 AOP imaging spectroscopy and lidar surveys.
Time Range
2018
Geography
Gunnison County, Colorado, USA, specifically the East River, Washington Gulch, Slate River, and Coal Creek watersheds.
Vector files are based on a specific AOP reflectance mosaic and should be closely evaluated before use with other datasets.