ISCN Soil Carbon data integration through SOC-DRaHR

[tonygardella]

The purpose of the Soil Organic Carbon Data Rescue and Harmonization Repository (SOC-DRaHR) is to collect harmonization scripts for data sets related to soil carbon and is led by @ktoddbrown. In essence they translate data from the format the data provider has to their internal representation.

Context

This provides us with the opportunity to easily ingest soil carbon data. We'll need to call the scripts in this repository: https://github.com/ktoddbrown/soils-long-tail-recovery and then write a functions to translate their internal format into the formats we need similar to how we've processed met data and we also need utilize the load_data framework to facilitate this process.

Some past Issues related to ingesting Soil carbon data:

506 Soil data standard

229 SoilGrids 1KM

350 Enable reading of Ameriflux/Fluxnet BADM sheets

Possible Implementation

This is an Epic Issue as we need to break this into smaller issues/tasks that we can link to in this larger issue. Please comment with more tasks or general comments! Some tasks:

• Function to call harmonization script and execute it
• Translate their internal format into formats we need
• Use load_data framework to help consolidate ISCN naming conventions with our own @bcow

[ktoddbrown]

Some quick thoughts:

SOC-DRaHR is still a bit malleable at this point. If you come up with issues or suggestions we would be happy to hear them! ISCN3 is now accessible via the R repo scripts.

Something to keep in mind is the data use permissions for ISCN3 are a bit hairy: see http://iscn.fluxdata.org/data/dataset-information/data-policy/ Not sure how you want to deal with that within the project but it's something to consider. We are prioritizing data with less restrictive reuse policies in the future so hopefully this will become less of an issue but there are historical complications here.

I would be delighted to have the output scripts in the SOC-DRaHR repo. I think that other people would find them useful beyond Pecan.

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