Imaging · collection · 2025
BioSCape Vegetation Surveys Berg and Eerste River Catchments, South Africa, 2022-2023
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.3334/ornldaac/2425
This dataset contains vegetation plot survey data collected at 36 sites across the Berg and Eerste River catchments in the Western Cape, South Africa collected during 2022 and again in 2023 during the 2023 BioSCape Field Collection season.
Description
Sampling protocols were designed by the BioSCape Leadership team for use by multiple teams to generate standardized and comparable vegetation plot data across sites. Each plot was circular, 10 m in diameter, and representative of the vegetation community.
Species were identified at each 1-m mark along the N-S and W-E transects, totaling 42 identifications per plot. Fractional ground cover of the plot, fractional vegetation dominance, and rarefaction counts for each plot were recorded at all plots from 2023. Data from 2022 have fractional ground cover of the NE quadrant and fractional vegetation dominance.
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These data are provided in comma separated values (CSV) format. The boundaries of the patches where the vegetation plots were located were recorded as polygons in included Keyhole Markup Language (KML) files.
Links
Get the data
- Data set Landing Page DOI URL doi.org/10.3334/ornldaac/2425 ↗
landing page · download · DOI / persistent id · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/bioscape/BioSCape_VegPlots_Berg_Eerste/comp/BioSCape_Ve… ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- search.earthdata.nasa.gov /search/granules?p=C3566306950-ORNL_CLOUD ↗
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- Collection Bundle URL data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/protected/bundle/BioSCape_VegPlots_Berg_Eerste_2425.zip ↗
download · from NASA CMR
- PNG daac.ornl.gov/BIOSCAPE/guides/BioSCape_VegPlots_Berg_Eerste_Fig1.png ↗
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- Resource bioscape.io ↗
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- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3566306950-ORNL_CLOUD.iso19115 ↗
download · from data nasa gov
Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/bioscape-vegetation-surveys-berg-and-eerste-river-catc… ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
Catalogue records · 3
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3566306950-ORNL_CLOUD.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=f6fd86cc-e911-46d1-bf83-52fe9bb3c… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3566306950-ORNL_CLOUD.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- CAMERA · FIELD SURVEYS · Vegetation Cover · Vegetation Fraction · Vegetation Species · VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Life Sciences · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
- Inferred from text
- Pollution and contamination 69%
Provenance · 2 source records, 22 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C3566306950-ORNL_CLOUD | 7 d ago | JSON v1 |
| NASA Data Portal | f6fd86cc-e911-46d1-bf83-52fe9bb3ce1d | 4 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:4105 | enrichment · NASA CMR | taxonomy-embedding@1.0.0 | title+keywords+description (69%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:life-sciences | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:physics | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:camera | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:visual-observations | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biosphere/vegetation/vegetation-cover | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biosphere/vegetation/vegetation-fraction | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biosphere/vegetation/vegetation-species | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:field-surveys | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| license_text | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| updated_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |