Dataset landingpage: BioBasis Zackenberg - Vegetation - Plot NDVI

This is the landing page for a dataset in the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring (GEM) database. This page embeds schema.org metadata as JSON-LD, describing the dataset in machine readable and interoperable format.

Dataset specification

  • Title: BioBasis Zackenberg - Vegetation - Plot NDVI
  • Description: Weekly data on NDVI in permanent plant and arthropod plots. For further details, please refer to the newest BioBasis manual available at the website. Vegetation:Vegetation BioBasis Zackenberg:The BioBasis programme monitors the dynamics of organisms and biological processes in the terrestrial and limnic ecosystems at Zackenberg and Nuuk. The BioBasis programme plays a central role in the development and implementation of the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Programme (CBMP) http://www.caff.is/monitoring across the Arctic.
  • DOI: 10.17897/K90N-8P82 - https://doi.org/10.17897/K90N-8P82
  • Location/site: Permanent plots - -20.57, 74.47 (lon-lat wgs84)
  • Date span of the dataset: 1999-06-09 - 2022-09-10

Data originator, license and how to download the dataset

The dataset is a product of the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring program (GEM): https://grid.ac/institutes/grid.507580.f. It is free and open data, licensed with terms of use under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ When downloading you will automatically get a terms of use document, describing how to cite the data and other important information.

Download the dataset via this link (registration needed): http://data.g-e-m.dk/log-in/data-tables?doi=10.17897/K90N-8P82

Variables measured / columns in dataset

ID Name Unit Data Type Description
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/K90N-8P82&column=Date Date Date Date Date of measurement
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/K90N-8P82&column=Plot Plot Text Text Plot ID
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/K90N-8P82&column=Section Section Text Text Section ID
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/K90N-8P82&column=Cloud_cover Cloud_cover Number Number Cloud cover in eights
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/K90N-8P82&column=Cloud_height Cloud_height Text Text Cloud height
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/K90N-8P82&column=Surface Surface Text Text Surface conditions
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/K90N-8P82&column=Field_remarks Field_remarks Text Text Remarks from the field worker(s)
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/K90N-8P82&column=Plot Plot Text Text Plot ID
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/K90N-8P82&column=Section Section Text Text Section ID
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/K90N-8P82&column=Cloud_cover Cloud_cover Number Number Cloud cover in eights
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/K90N-8P82&column=Cloud_height Cloud_height Text Text Cloud height
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/K90N-8P82&column=Surface Surface Text Text Surface conditions
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/K90N-8P82&column=Field_remarks Field_remarks Text Text Remarks from the field worker(s)
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/K90N-8P82&column=Sensor Sensor Text Text Sensor type used to estimate NDVI (Skye_corrected: Handheld Sky, corrected using information on CropCirle NDVI values, cloud cover, DOY, etc.; CropCircle: handheld CropCircle; RapidScan: Handheld RapidScan; Sequoia: Drone-borne Sequoia).
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/K90N-8P82&column=NDVI NDVI Number Number NDVI value