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UAS Campaign Summary Metadata Guide

This page provides description of the variables included in the Campaign Summary metadata. Use this to guide completion of the Campaign Summary metadata template.

Campaign Summary Metadata Content - Click links below for full description

Project | Contact | Pilot in Command | Location description | Location identifier | Start date | End date | Total number of flights | Average flight time | Total flight time | Permits and waivers | Base station | Geospatial reference |

Project

Variable Name project
Requirement level required
Unit or format controlled list (ESS-DIVE) or free text
Description Project name
Example Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE) Tropics

Contact

Variable Name contact
Requirement level required
Unit or format free text
Description List the person who should be contacted by users seeking further information for the data. Only one contact is allowed. Including the ORCID of this individual is strongly encouraged.
Example First name, Last name, Organization, Email, ORCID

Pilot in Command

Variable Name pilot
Requirement level recommended
Unit or format free text
Description List the name and contact details of the Pilot in Command (PIC). Include FAA pilot license number if applicable.
Example First name, Last name, Organization, Email, FAA license number

Location description

Variable Name location_description
Requirement level required
Unit or format free text
Description Geographic place name, including Place, State, Country
Example Seward Peninsula, AK, USA

Location identifier

Variable Name location_id
Requirement level optional
Unit or format free text
Description Identifiers of any sites or plots within flight area
Example Plot 4, Intensive site 1

Start date

Variable Name date_start
Requirement level required
Unit or format yyyy-mm-dd
Description Date of first flight in data package
Example 2022-02-02

End Date

Variable Name date_end
Requirement level required
Unit or format yyyy-mm-dd
Description Date of last flight in data package
Example 2022-02-04

Total number of flights

Variable Name num_flights
Requirement level optional
Unit or format integer
Description Total number of flights for which data included
Example 5

Average flight time

Variable Name flight_time_avg
Requirement level optional
Unit or format minutes
Description Average flight time of missions
Example 21

Total flight time

Variable Name flight_time_total
Requirement level optional
Unit or format minutes
Description Total flight time of missions (alternative to using numFlights and flightTimeAvg)
Example 600

Permits and waivers

Variable Name permits
Requirement level recommended
Unit or format free text
Description List land permits, waivers and Certificates of Waiver or Authorization (COA). Can include documents in the data package.
Example permit.pdf

Base station

Variable Name base_station
Requirement level recommended
Unit or format free text
Description Base station GPS coordinates, model and type of GNSS data collected. Self-deployed vs CORS network station. If CORS record ID of CORS station(s) (e.g. AB11) and provide raw base station data in data submission.
Example Lat 70.123456 Lon -100.123456; Emlid RS2 collecting GPS, Beidou, Galileo and GLONASS data; CORS:AB11

Geospatial reference

Variable Name geo_ref
Requirement level required
Unit or format free text
Description Geospatial reference system used
Example WGS 84