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    "tag": 19134,
    "title": "Ground reference geospatial data collected on Fire Island National Seashore, NY, USA, September 16-19, 2024",
    "pubdate": "20250513",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "DOI:10.5066\/P13CHR8V",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/whcmsc\/SB_data_release\/DR_P13CHR8V\/2024-022-FA_FIIS_September2024_metadata.faq.html",
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    "email": null,
    "descript": "Ground reference data in the form of ecogeomorphic evaluations, topographic survey measurements, and geotagged photographs were collected at four areas of interest (AOI) across Fire Island National Seashore (FIIS), NY, USA September 16-19, 2024, that document site conditions. The overall goals of USGS personnel for the data collection were to: (1) collect ground reference data that assist in the visual interpretation of aerial imagery to produce maps that show changes on the island over time (e.g. land cover changes), and (2) collect ground reference data that will be used to train conditional probability distributions among variables for a Bayesian network that would predict landcover\/ecogeomorphic state based on elevation, plant functional type, and distance from ocean shoreline.",
    "lang": null,
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    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Evans, Alexandra D.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Zeigler, Sara L.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Bartlett, Marie K.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Raphael, Jordan",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Lentz, Erika E.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
    ],
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            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "174",
            "name": "coastal ecosystems",
            "scope": "Biological communities and habitats within the narrow zones of land between the margin of oceans or seas and large landmasses."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "474",
            "name": "geospatial datasets",
            "scope": "Collections of related digital information that are geographically referenced."
        },
        {
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            "code": "492",
            "name": "GPS measurement",
            "scope": "Determination of distance and location using instruments receiving signals from the Global Positioning System, a system of satellites for identifying earth locations."
        },
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            "name": "image collections",
            "scope": "Visible representations of objects or earth properties produced by cameras, spectral instruments, or as graphical representations of measurements."
        },
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            "code": "626",
            "name": "land surface characteristics",
            "scope": "Features and attributes of earth's land surface."
        },
        {
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            "code": "628",
            "name": "land use and land cover",
            "scope": "The vegetation, water, natural surface, and cultural features on the land surface."
        },
        {
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            "name": "vegetation",
            "scope": "Plant life or general plant cover in an area."
        },
        {
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            "scope": "Flora or fauna in natural environment, for example wildlife, vegetation, biological sciences, ecology, wilderness, sea life, wetlands, habitat, biological resources"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "006",
            "name": "elevation",
            "scope": "Height above or below sea level, for example altitude, bathymetry, digital elevation models, slope, derived products, DEMs, TINs"
        },
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            "code": "008",
            "name": "geoscientificInformation",
            "scope": "Information pertaining to earth sciences, for example geophysical features and processes, geology, minerals, sciences dealing with the composition, structure and origin of the earth's rocks, risks of earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, gravity information, soils, permafrost, hydrogeology, groundwater, erosion"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "013",
            "name": "location",
            "scope": "Positional information and services, for example addresses, geodetic networks, geodetic control points, postal zones and services, place names, geographic names"
        }
    ],
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            "name": "https:\/\/www.sciencebase.gov\/catalog\/file\/get\/67927873d34e88f5864c49b0?name=2024-022-FA_FIIS_Sept_data_browse.jpg&allowOpen=true",
            "description": "Example \"quadrat\" photograph that shows USGS staff collecting data at a sampling location and illustrates the larger landscape context the sample quadrat location was within."
        }
    ],
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        "2024-022-FA"
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