Geographic distribution of ~1.4 million forest inventory sample plots in the Science-i global database (v.Feb2023).
You can contribute any type of data to be shared and used in Science-i research projects. In case your data will be used in a project, you will be invited to participate in this project as a co-author. All the contributed data will be kept confidential, and will be used for the study that the contributor has approved.
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If you have forest inventory data from repeated measurements, please visit our Special Call for Data 2022.
Contributing data to Science-i takes only a few simple steps:
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Compile your data in a single file (e.g. csv, xlsx, or shp). For forest inventory data, please compile your data in the Science-i/GFB2 template (downloadable from here);
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For datasets smaller than 10MB, you can email the file to Dr. Jingjing Liang <jjliang at purdue.edu>;
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For datasets larger than 10MB, please email Dr. Jingjing Liang for a secure transfer link;
- Email a metadata (see this link for example) to Jingjing Liang <jjliang at purdue.edu>.