Finding the forest in the trees [[electronic resource] ] : the challenge of combining diverse environmental data : selected case studies / / Committee for a Pilot Study on Database Interfaces, U.S. National Committee for CODATA, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1995
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (144 p.)
• Disciplina: 574.5/072
• Soggetto topico: Ecology - Research - Data processing; Climatic changes - Research - Data processing; Database management
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Finding the Forest in the Trees""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""Addressing Barriers Deriving from the Data""; ""Addressing Barriers Deriving from Users' Needs""; ""Addressing Barriers Deriving from Organizational Interactions""; ""Addressing Barriers Deriving from System Considerations""; ""TEN KEYS TO SUCCESS""; ""1 Introduction""; ""METHODOLOGY OF THE STUDY""; ""ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT""; ""REFERENCES""; ""2 Impact Assessment Project for Drought Early Warning in the Sahel"" ; ""VARIABLES MEASURED AND SOURCES OF DATA""""DATA MANAGEMENT AND INTERFACING""; ""Timeliness of Data Acquisition""; ""Accessibility of Data""; ""Data Quality and Verification""; ""Data Retention""; ""Data Documentation""; ""Importance of the Crop Calendar""; ""Definition of Users of Crop Modeling Results""; ""Creation of New Algorithms and Data Management Procedures""; ""Accommodation of Users' Needs for Crop Yield Estimates""; ""Interfacing of Disparate Databases""; ""Institutional and Political Constraints""; ""LESSONS LEARNED""; ""REFERENCES"" ; ""3 The National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program""""VARIABLES MEASURED AND SOURCES OF DATA FOR THE AQUATIC PROCESSES ANDEFFECTS PORTION OF NAPAP""; ""MAJOR CONSIDERATIONS IN EVALUATING THE DATA MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIESOF THE AQUATIC PROCESSES AND EFFECT ...""; ""Users' Needs""; ""Study Design""; ""DATA MANAGEMENT AND INTERFACING IN THE AQUATIC PROCESSES AND EFFECTSPORTION OF NAPAP""; ""LESSONS LEARNED""; ""Program Planning""; ""Program Implementation""; ""Program Completion, Evaluation, and Future Activities""; ""REFERENCES"" ; ""4 The H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest Long-Term Ecological ResearchSite""""VARIABLES MEASURED AND SOURCES OF DATA""; ""DATA MANAGEMENT AND INTERFACING""; ""LESSONS LEARNED""; ""REFERENCES""; ""5 The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center""; ""VARIABLES MEASURED AND SOURCES OF DATA""; ""DATA MANAGEMENT""; ""Selecting the Data Set""; ""Contacting the Principal Investigator""; ""Acquiring the Data""; ""Performing Quality Assurance and Quality Control""; ""Documenting the Data""; ""Distributing the Data""; ""LESSONS LEARNED""; ""REFERENCES""; ""6 The First ISLSCP Field Experiment"" ; ""VARIABLES MEASURED AND SOURCES OF DATA""""DATA MANAGEMENT AND INTERFACING""; ""LESSONS LEARNED""; ""REFERENCES""; ""7 The California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigation""; ""VARIABLES MEASURED AND SOURCES OF DATA""; ""DATA MANAGEMENT AND INTERFACING""; ""Science""; ""Organization""; ""Results""; ""LESSONS LEARNED""; ""REFERENCES""; ""8 Interfacing Diverse Environmental Dataâ€?Issues and Recommendations""; ""THE PROBLEM AND ITS CONTEXT""; ""ADDRESSING BARRIERS DERIVING FROM THE DATA""; ""Spatial and Temporal Scale""; ""Preliminary Data Processing and Statistical Uncertainty"" ; ""Data Volume""
• Titolo autorizzato: Finding the forest in the trees
• ISBN: 0-309-17660-3; 1-280-21100-8; 9786610211005; 0-309-58686-0; 0-585-00229-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778767303321
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