SNAPP: Landscape-Scale Forest Assessments to Support Zero-Deforestation Supply Chains
Principal Investigator(s): Robert Heilmayr, Kimberly Carlson
CompletedPrincipal Investigator(s): Robert Heilmayr, Kimberly Carlson
CompletedPrincipal Investigator(s): Nicholas J. Bax, Daniel C. Dunn, Patricia D. Miloslavich
CompletedPrincipal Investigator(s): Fiorenza Micheli, Yimnang Golbuu, Jim Leape
CompletedPrincipal Investigator(s): Bethany A. Bradley, Inés Ibañez
CompletedPrincipal Investigator(s): Katherine Mills, Kristin Kleisner , Patrick Sullivan
CompletedPrincipal Investigator(s): Christian Walzer
CompletedIn an attempt to mine the rich collection of ecological information, ecology and related disciplines have recently increased their emphasis on post hoc synthesis and analysis of existing data. Consequently, investigators must integrate large numbers of data sets with varying schemas from diverse sources. The scientists generally have little or no knowledge about the history, quality, and reliability of these data. Such data integration efforts are frequently necessary precursors to more cogent ecological analyses using the newly synthesized data.
As part of the development of the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII), the U.S. Geological Survey and its NBII partners and collaborators have cooperated in the development of a proposed metadata content standard for biological and ecological sciences data. Working through the U.S.