Table 2 Column description of the LFMC data spreadsheet.
Field | Description |
|---|---|
ID | Unique sample ID: C(contact)_(sitename)_(record) |
Contact | Last name of the person to be contacted for this dataset. |
Sitename | Descriptive title of the sampling area. |
State/Region | State or region where the sampling area is located. |
Country | Country where the sampling area is located. |
Latitude | Latitude of sampling area location (Decimal Degrees, DD). |
Longitude | Longitude of sampling area location (Decimal Degrees, DD). |
Sampling time | Time when the sampling occurred (hh: mm, 24-hour notation) |
Sampling date | Date when the sampling occurred, in the format “yyyymmdd”. |
Sampling year | Year when the sampling occurred. |
Protocol | Identifier of the protocol used to obtain the LFMC value. Details present in the “LFMC protocol codes” spreadsheet. |
Land Cover | Land cover type of the sampling area in the year 2015, according to ESA Climate Change Initiative – Land Cover (UCLouvain 2017). |
LFMC value | Live Fuel Moisture Content value. |
Units | Unit of measurement of LFMC. 1 for %, 2 for g/m2, 3 for others. |
NDVI SD min | Minimum Standard Deviation of monthly averaged Landsat 8 OLI NDVI in the year 2015, computed on an area of 500 m × 500 m around the site’s coordinates. |
NDVI SD max | Maximum Standard Deviation of monthly averaged Landsat 8 OLI NDVI in the year 2015, computed on an area of 500 m × 500 m around the site’s coordinates. |
NDVI CV min | Minimum Coefficient of Variation (CV) of monthly averaged NDVI in the year 2015, computed on an area of 500 m × 500 m around the site’s coordinates. |
NDVI CV max | Maximum Coefficient of Variation (CV) of monthly averaged NDVI in the year 2015, computed on an area of 500 m × 500 m around the site’s coordinates. |
Species collected | Scientific name of the species sampled. In the case of multiple species collected altogether: list of scientific names of the main species sampled. |
Elevation (m.a.s.l) | Elevation in metres of the sampling plot. |
Slope (%) | Percentage slope of the sampling plot. |
Reference | Citation or link to original LFMC data sets or to relevant publications that use the data or describe the site (in cases where the collection of data in an area proceeded after the publication cited, the record in Globe-LFMC was still linked to the article related to the older sampling campaign, in order to provide a description of the site). |
Name of picture file | Name of the photograph showing the sampling site. |
