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Utilities and scripts for working with NEON data. Currently: an R package with functions to join (stack) the month-by-site files in downloaded NEON data, to convert data to geoCSV format, and to download data from the API.
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Obtain each tree record for a site #122

Closed mikeyEcology closed 2 years ago

mikeyEcology commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I'm trying to obtain each record for a tree at a site and having trouble understanding how this is possible. I've been using the "NEON USER GUIDE TO WOODY PLANT VEGETATION STRUCTURE (DP1.10098.001) AND NON‐HERBACEOUS PERENNIAL VEGETATION STRUCTURE (DP1.10045.001)" and I'm very confused about how the tables interact and overlap in the output of the loadByProduct function. For example, are individuals in vst_mappingandtagging also in vst_apparentindividual? Or are these different individuals. 

woody_plants <- loadByProduct(dpID="DP1.10098.001",
                           site="MOAB",
                           package = 'expanded',
                           check.size=FALSE)

Describe the solution you'd like I'd like to be able to create a table with the following columns for each individual observed in a survey: date, plotID, taxon code, basalStemDiameter. It seems like this would be a common desire and I assume the functionality exists, but I cannot find it.

Describe alternatives you've considered I have worked through all of the tutorials and read through several documents.

cklunch commented 2 years ago

@mikeyEcology Thanks for your inquiry. Please submit this question to the NEON Contact Us page, that will make it much easier to route to the correct person.

You can also consult the first two sections of the Vegetation Structure/Canopy Height Model tutorial and the Data Product User Guide for DP1.10098.001. But the Contact Us page will be the best way to reach the subject matter expert for the data product.