Metadata from ~107,000 environmental monitoring stations among 219 countries/territories and 18 environmental networks. Metadata are gathered from a growing number of sources and the database is continually updated to reflect the increase of information.
metScanR_DB(list) Metadata from ~107,000 environmental monitoring stations, worldwide. The metadata for each site include:
namez (character) Name of environmental monitoring site as defined by governing network
identifiers (data.frame) Station identifers of environmental monitoring site as defined by associated networks
platform (character) Station platform (type). A single station may be a specific platform but it might be associated with many networks / identifers.
elements (data.frame) Elements (environmental phenomena) measured, along with associated start and end dates
location (data.frame) Spatial location information (latitude, longitude, country, elevation) of environmental monitoring site