Open bw4sz opened 4 years ago
I wrote NEON about this.
Good catch, and thanks for contacting NEON about this. Looks like there are indeed duplicates.
One thought I had was that multi-bole trees have multiple entries in the woody vegetation structure data set and that this could potentially be causing an issue, but the individual IDs have a letter on the end to indicate this: NEON.PLA.D01.BART.00226A, NEON.PLA.D01.BART.00226B, etc. Just something to keep in mind, since individual bole entries don't have all of the measurements as a single-bole tree.
I'll cc you, they are super aware, the problems are pretty expansive, in the full dataset i see , ~2000 duplicate locations (take most recent), 9000 duplicate IDs with different heights from the same event ID, hundreds of between year height changes of more than 6m. I'm trying to make a vignette here that i'll clean up.
https://github.com/bw4sz/neonVegWrangleR/blob/master/vignettes/Field_Data.Rmd
We should either warn users, or probably provide a merging solution and not let things trickle into downstream analysis. I do not know why the following is not true, but I believe it is upstream of this package
Debugging, this is coming from NeonUtilities
2018 has two different heights.