eLTER_CL is a thesaurus for controlled lists used by the eLTER community
eLTER_CL
resource type
INSPIRE data theme
unit
spatial reference method
coordinate reference system
administrative unit level
spatial scale
spatial design
sampling time unit
method
data reliability
data completeness
processing step
resource provider programme
access and use condition
geometry observation dataset
statistical dataset
measurement dataset
category observation dataset
count observation dataset
truth observation dataset
temporal observation dataset
Location of properties based on address identifiers, usually by road name, house number, postal code.
addresses
Units of administration, dividing areas where Member States have and/or exercise jurisdictional rights, for local, regional and national governance, separated by administrative boundaries.
administrative units
Systems for uniquely referencing spatial information in space as a set of coordinates (x, y, z) and/or latitude and longitude and height, based on a geodetic horizontal and vertical datum.
coordinate reference systems
Harmonised multi-resolution grid with a common point of origin and standardised location and size of grid cells.
geographical grid systems
Areas defined by cadastral registers or equivalent.
cadastral parcels
Names of areas, regions, localities, cities, suburbs, towns or settlements, or any geographical or topographical feature of public or historical interest.
geographical names
Hydrographic elements, including marine areas and all other water bodies and items related to them, including river basins and sub-basins. Where appropriate, according to the definitions set out in Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy (2) and in the form of networks.
hydrography
Area designated or managed within a framework of international, Community and Member States' legislation to achieve specific conservation objectives.
protected sites
Road, rail, air and water transport networks and related infrastructure. Includes links between different networks. Also includes the trans-European transport network as defined in Decision No 1692/96/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 1996 on Community Guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network (1) and future revisions of that Decision.
transport networks
Digital elevation models for land, ice and ocean surface. Includes terrestrial elevation, bathymetry and shoreline.
elevation
Geology characterised according to composition and structure. Includes bedrock, aquifers and geomorphology.
geology
Physical and biological cover of the earth's surface including artificial surfaces, agricultural areas, forests, (semi-)natural areas, wetlands, water bodies.
land cover
Geo-referenced image data of the Earth's surface, from either satellite or airborne sensors.
orthoimagery
Farming equipment and production facilities (including irrigation systems, greenhouses and stables).
agricultural and aquaculture facilities
Areas managed, regulated or used for reporting at international, European, national, regional and local levels. Includes dumping sites, restricted areas around drinking water sources, nitrate-vulnerable zones, regulated fairways at sea or large inland waters, areas for the dumping of waste, noise restriction zones, prospecting and mining permit areas, river basin districts, relevant reporting units and coastal zone management areas.
area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
Physical conditions in the atmosphere. Includes spatial data based on measurements, on models or on a combination thereof and includes measurement locations.
atmospheric conditions
Areas of relatively homogeneous ecological conditions with common characteristics.
bio-geographical regions
Geographical location of buildings.
buildings
Energy resources including hydrocarbons, hydropower, bio-energy, solar, wind, etc., where relevant including depth/height information on the extent of the resource.
energy resources
Location and operation of environmental monitoring facilities includes observation and measurement of emissions, of the state of environmental media and of other ecosystem parameters (biodiversity, ecological conditions of vegetation, etc.) by or on behalf of public authorities.
environmental monitoring facilities
Geographical areas characterised by specific ecological conditions, processes, structure, and (life support) functions that physically support the organisms that live there. Includes terrestrial and aquatic areas distinguished by geographical, abiotic and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural.
habitats and biotopes
Geographical distribution of dominance of pathologies (allergies, cancers, respiratory diseases, etc.), information indicating the effect on health (biomarkers, decline of fertility, epidemics) or well-being of humans (fatigue, stress, etc.) linked directly (air pollution, chemicals, depletion of the ozone layer, noise, etc.) or indirectly (food, genetically modified organisms, etc.) to the quality of the environment.
human health and safety
Territory characterised according to its current and future planned functional dimension or socio-economic purpose (e.g. residential, industrial, commercial, agricultural, forestry, recreational).
land use
Mineral resources including metal ores, industrial minerals, etc., where relevant including depth/height information on the extent of the resource.
mineral resources
Vulnerable areas characterised according to natural hazards (all atmospheric, hydrologic, seismic, volcanic and wildfire phenomena that, because of their location, severity, and frequency, have the potential to seriously affect society), e.g. floods, landslides and subsidence, avalanches, forest fires, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions.
natural risk zones
Physical conditions of oceans (currents, salinity, wave heights, etc.).
oceanographic geographical features
Geographical distribution of people, including population characteristics and activity levels, aggregated by grid, region, administrative unit or other analytical unit.
population distribution - demography
Industrial production sites, including installations covered by Council Directive 96/61/EC of 24 September 1996 concerning integrated pollution prevention and control (1) and water abstraction facilities, mining, storage sites.
production and industrial facilities
Physical conditions of seas and saline water bodies divided into regions and sub-regions with common characteristics.
sea regions
Soils and subsoil characterised according to depth, texture, structure and content of particles and organic material, stoniness, erosion, where appropriate mean slope and anticipated water storage capacity.
soil
Geographical distribution of occurrence of animal and plant species aggregated by grid, region, administrative unit or other analytical unit.
species distribution
Units for dissemination or use of statistical information.
statistical units
Includes utility facilities such as sewage, waste management, energy supply and water supply, administrative and social governmental services such as public administrations, civil protection sites, schools and hospitals.
utility and governmental services
Weather conditions and their measurements; precipitation, temperature, evapotranspiration, wind speed and direction.
meteorological geographical features
Physical conditions in the atmosphere. Includes spatial data based on measurements, on models or on a combination thereof and includes measurement locations. Weather conditions and their measurements; precipitation, temperature, evapotranspiration, wind speed and direction.
atmospheric conditions and meteorological geographical features
point
vector
raster
WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator
ETRS89
LAEA
ETRS89-extended / LAEA Europe
Austria Gauss-Kruger M28
Austria Gauss-Kruger M31
Austria Gauss-Kruger M34
Austria Lambert
ETRS89 / Austria Lambert
province
NUTS2
district
NUTS3
municipality
cadastral municipality
single point
representative
transect
vertical profile
regular
random
stratified random
block design
full area coverage
single measurement
less than seconds
seconds
minutes
15 minutes
30 minutes
hourly
daily
weekly
monthly
quarterly
seasonally
half yearly
yearly
every 2-5 years
every 5-10 years
more than 10 years
[ NCIT ][ SUICIDEO ]* Division of a distribution into equal, ordered subgroups; a set of 'cut points' that divide a sample of data into groups containing (as far as possible) equal numbers of observations.
quantile
[ SUICIDEO ][ NCIT ]* A measure of the range of values in a set of numbers. Standard deviation is a statistic used as a measure of the dispersion or variation in a distribution, equal to the square root of the arithmetic mean of the squares of the deviations from the arithmetic mean.
standard deviation
[David B. Wilson] Meta-analysis is a statistical method of synthesizing quantitative results across studies examining a common research question.
meta analysis
[DCM] Measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable about its mean.
skewness
[ECG] A measure of the variability in a sample or population. It is calculated as the mean squared deviation (MSD) of the individual values from their common mean. In calculating the MSD, the divisor n is commonly used for a population variance and the divisor n-1 for a sample variance.
variance
[HUPSON] A statistical measure referring to the relationship between two random variables. It is a positive correlation when each variable tends to increase or decrease as the other does, and a negative or inverse correlation if one tends to increase as the other decreases. source: http://shodor.org/interactivate/dictionary/
correlation
[Malika Khalili] Spatial autocorrelation is a correlation between the values of a single variable, considering their geographical locations.
spatial autocorrelation
[OBCS] A data item with a specific table layout that allows visualization of the performance of an algorithm. Each column of the matrix represents the instances in a predicted class, while each row represents the instances in an actual class.
confusion matrix
[OBCS] A quantitative confidence value that is the standard deviation of a data set divided by the mean of the same data set; a normalized measure of dispersion of a probability distribution
coefficient of variation
[NCIT]* A measure of the expectation of the occurrence of a particular event.
probability
[NCIT]* Any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total.
percentile
[NEMO] median is the middle value of a set of ordered observations. When there is an even number of observations the median is the average of two values that fall either side of what would be the middle value.
median
[NPO] A measure of central tendency which is the most frequently occurring value in a set of numerical values.
mode
[OBCS] A quantitative confidence value that is used in Bayesian analysis to describe the range in which a posterior probability estimate is likely to reside.
credible interval
[OBCS] A quantitative confidence value that refers to an interval give values within which there is a high probability (95 percent by convention) that the true population value can be found. The calculation of a confidence interval considers the standard deviation of the data and the number of observations. Thus, a confidence interval narrows as the number of observations increases, or its variance (dispersion) decreases.
confidence interval
[OBCS] A quantitative confidence value that refers to the upper and lower values defining the central 50 percent of observations. The boundaries are equal to the 25th and 75th percentiles. The interquartile range can be depicted in a box and whiskers plot.
interquartile range
[OCRE] The range is the difference between the lowest and highest numerical values; the limits or scale of variation.
range (statistics)
[RO]* Kurtosis is a measure of how outlier-prone a distribution is. The kurtosis of the normal distribution is 3. Distributions that are more outlier-prone than the normal distribution have kurtosis greater than 3; distributions that are less outlier-prone have kurtosis less than 3
kurtosis
[SIO] A mean is the central tendency of a collection of numbers taken as the sum of the numbers divided by the size of the collection.
mean
[STATO] a decile is a quantile where n=10 and which splits data into sections accrued of 10% of data, so the first decile delineates 10% of the data, the second decile delineates 20% of the data and the nineth decile, 90 % of the data
decile
[STATO] a quartile is a quantile which splits data into sections accrued of 25% of data, so the first quartile delineates 25% of the data, the second quartile delineates 50% of the data and the third quartile, 75 % of the data
quartile
For a given positive natural number k, the k-th central moment of a random variable x is defined as k=E[(x−E[x])k]. That is, it is the expected value of the deviation from the mean to the power k. In particular, 0=1, 1=0 and 2 is the variance of x. [UncertML] http://www.uncertml.org/statistics/centred-moment
centred moment
neutral theory
covariance matrix
discrete probability
moment
changes over time
high
moderate
low
complete
completion ongoing
incomplete
free for access
free for access and use upon request
other restrictions according to rules defined in intellectual rights
restricted access defined in detail in intellectual property information
no access
Data type is an attribute associated with a piece of data that tells a computer system how to interpret its value.
data type
int
It is the most common numeric data type used to store numbers without a fractional component (-707, 0, 707).
integer
float
It is a numeric data type used to store numbers that may have a fractional component, like monetary values do (707.07, 0.7, 707.00).
floating point
char
It is used to store a single letter, digit, punctuation mark, symbol, or blank space.
character
str
It is a sequence of characters and the most commonly used data type to store text.
string
bool
It represents the values true and false.
boolean
enum
It contains a small set of predefined unique values (also known as elements or enumerators) that can be compared and assigned to a variable of enumerated data type.
enumeration type
Also known as a list, an array is a data type that stores a number of elements in a specific order, typically all of the same type.
array
It typically stores a date in the YYYY-MM-DD format (ISO 8601 syntax).
date
Stores a time in the hh:mm:ss format.
time
Stores a value containing both date and time together in the YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss format.
datetime
Typically represented in Unix time, a timestamp represents the number of seconds that have elapsed since midnight (00:00:00 UTC), 1st January 1970.
timestamp
A measurement scale defines the level of measurement of a variable. It decides the statistical test type to be used. The mathematical nature of a variable or in other words, how a variable is measured is considered as the level of measurement.
measurement scale
Nominal scale is a naming scale, where variables are simply “named” or labeled, with no specific order.
nominal scale
Ordinal scale has all its variables in a specific order, beyond just naming them.
ordinal scale
Interval scale offers labels, order, as well as, a specific interval between each of its variable options.
interval scale
Ratio scale bears all the characteristics of an interval scale, in addition to that, it can also accommodate the value of “zero” on any of its variables.
ratio scale
kilometre
km2
square kilometre
metre
percent
t.har.year-1
tonne per hectare per year
kg.har-1
kilogram per hectar
t.year-1
tonne per year
mg.kg-1
milligram per kilogram
g.har.year-1
gram per hectare per year
INVEKOS
INVEKOS ist ein System von Verordnungen zur Durchsetzung einer einheitlichen Agrarpolitik in den EU-Mitgliedstaaten. Die schrittweise Einführung des Integrierten Verwaltungs- und Kontrollsystems durch die Europäische Kommission wurde im Zuge der Reform der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik (GAP) im Jahre 1992 beschlossen.
Integriertes Verwaltung- und Kontrollsystem
Interreg is one of the key instruments of the European Union (EU) supporting cooperation across borders through project funding. It aims to jointly tackle common challenges and find shared solutions in fields such as health, environment, research, education, transport, sustainable energy and more.
Interreg programme
Horizon 2020 is the eighth framework programme funding research, technological development, and innovation.
Horizon 2020
statistical aggregation
statistical disaggregation
GIS intersection
GIS interpolation
complex calculation balancing
MONERIS variable
area of slope <1% arable land of catchment
area of slope 1-2% arable land of catchment
area of slope 3-4% arable land of catchment
area of slope 4-8% arable land of catchment
area of slope >8% arable land of catchment
area of grassland of catchment
area of woodland and forest of catchment
area of unvegetated land of catchment
area of glacier of catchment
slope of catchment
mass per area per time of soil erosion in slope <1% arable land of catchment
mass per area per time of soil erosion in slope 1-2% arable land of catchment
mass per area per time of soil erosion in slope 3-4% arable land of catchment
mass per area per time of soil erosion in slope 4-8% arable land of catchment
mass per area per time of soil erosion in slope >8% arable land of catchment
mass per area per time of soil erosion of catchment
mass per area per time of soil erosion in grassland of catchment
area of with conservation tillage arable land of catchment
different types of phosphorus: organic, inorganic, which is measured as Total Posphorus
mass per area of accumulated surplus total phosphorus of catchment
area of arable land of catchment
mass per area per time of soil erosion in arable land of catchment
used for calculation of Im-BE; Current agricultural soil loss
correction of R-factor
used to calculate Im-BE; soil loss from arable land is modified by specific actual (2007-2013) R-factor (precipitation intensities and amounts, which are not described by long-year averages)
mass per area of actual soil erosion in arable land of catchment
mass per area of actual soil erosion in woodland and forest of catchment
mass per area of actual soil erosion in unvegetated land of catchment
mass per area of actual soil erosion in glacier of catchment
mass per area of actual soil erosion of catchment
Share of eroded sediment (soil loss) that is transported to the surface water (depends on slope, distance from Surface water, soil texture)
portion of soil erosion in sediment of catchment
Amount of soils, which enter the surface water
mass per area of soil erosion in sediment of catchment
content of clay in topsoil of catchment
content of basis total phosphorus in agricultural topsoil of catchment
content of total phosphorus in agricultural topsoil of catchment
enrichment ratio of total phosphorus in catchment
mass per area of agricultural soil erosion in sediment of catchment
mass per area of natural soil erosion in sediment of catchment
emission of total phosphorus from agricultural soil erosion
emission of total phosphorus from natural soil erosion
emission of total phosphorus from diffuse sources
total emission of total phosphorus
MGI / Austria Lambert
MONERIS keyword
[GEMET] The science that treats the occurrence, circulation, distribution, and properties of the waters of the earth, and their reaction with the environment.
US LTER controlled vocabulary
Hydrologie
hidrologia
hidrologie
hidrologija
hidrología
hidroloģija
hidrológia
hydrologi
hydrologia
hydrologie
hydrology
hydrológia
hüdroloogia
idrologia
vesitiede, hydrologia
υδρολογία
Хидрология
الهيدرولوجيا - علم المياه
[controlled by ] Lars Lundin 20130611
[Henderson's] n. (1) the form and structure of an organism; (2) the study of form and structure.
Morphologie
morfologi
morfologi (biol.)
morfologia
morfologia (biologica)
morfologia, muoto-oppi
morfologie
morfologija
morfología (biológica)
morfoloogia, kujuõpetus
morfoloģija
morfológia
morphologie
morphology
μορφολογία
Прахова емисия
المورفولوجيا
22 May 2013
[controlled by ] Mark Frenzel
[GEMET] A detailed list of articles, goods, property, etc.
inventory
[controlled by ] U Grandin
surface water
measurement
GIS data
[GEMET] The general process or the group of processes whereby the materials of Earth's crust are loosened , dissolved, or worn away and simultaneously moved from one place to another, by natural agencies, which include weathering, solution, corrosion, and transportation, but usually exclude mass wasting.
Erosion
eroosio
erosie
erosion
erosione
erosioon, uuristus
erosión
erosjon
erosão
eroze
erozija
eroziune
erozja
erózia
erózió
érosion
διάβρωση
Ерозия
تآكل
[controlled by ] Staszewski 08.06.2013
emissions
[GEMET] A discharge of particulate gaseous, or soluble waste material/pollution into the air from a polluting source.
emission
[GEMET] A nonmetallic element used to manufacture phosphoric acid, in phosphor bronzes, incendiaries, pyrotechnics, matches, and rat poisons; the white or yellow allotrope is a soft waxy solid, soluble in carbon disulfide, insoluble in water and alcohol, and is poisonous and self-igniting in air; the red allotrope is an amorphous powder, insoluble in all solvents and is nonpoisonous; the black allotrope comprises lustrous crystals similar to graphite, and is insoluble in most solvents.
Phosphor
fosfor
fosforas
fosfori
fosforo
fosfors
foszfor
fósforo
phosphore
phosphorus
φωσφόρος
Фосфор
الفوسفور
meterology
[GEMET] The science concerned with the atmosphere and its phenomena.
Meteorologie
meteorologi
meteorologia
meteorologie
meteorologija
meteorologija, vremenoslovje
meteorology
meteoroloogia
meteoroloģija
meteorológia
météorologie
säätiede, ilmatiede
weerkunde
μετεωρολογία
Метеорология
علم الأرصاد الجوية
[controlled by ] Giorgio Matteucci
generic answer option
none
other
unkown
yes
data capture
n. devices/gadgets that record data over time or in relation to location either with a built in instrument or sensor or via external instruments and sensors
datalogger
"[source of definition ] wikipedia
[controlled by ] Neagu Stefan 31/05/13"
The data type 'Data services' describes the availability of data services (e.g. WFS) to connect to the data.
data service
data services
data portal
Web Map Service
Web Feature Service
Web Coverage Service
no data service
REST API
Sensor Web Enablement
Web Catalog Service
SPARQL endpoint
other data service
The data type 'Data storage format' describes the different formats in which the data are available and managed
data storage format
[BRO]* A resource that provides access to a database that comprises a normalized data set constructed according to a specific entity-relation data model.
relational database
[BRO]* A resource that provides access to a database that stores XML.
XML database
spatial database (GIS)
paper
unstructured file
structured file or spreadsheet
spatial data file (GIS)
triple store
other data storage format
proprietary file format
graph or object database
data storage location
central data storage location"^^rdf:HTML
central
distributed data storage over multiple institutions
distributed over multiple institutions
distributed data storage within institution
distributed within institution
not applicable
metadata standards
EML
Ecological Metadata Language
DwC
Darwin Core
Dublin Core
INSPIRE metadata specification
domain specific metadata standard
data transmission
UMTS
GMS
other data transmission
telephone line
cable based
radio transmission system (repeaters, receivers, centralstation)
no data transmission
satellite transmission system
energy provision
central energy provision
distributed energy provision
energy supply type
fuel cell
backup power supply system
battery
cable
generator
other energy supply type
permanent energy supply
medium permanent energy supply
low permanent energy supply
large permanent energy supply
maintenance infrastructure
snow clearing equipment
Type of the site of platform according to their inner heterogeneity. Simple sites are classical LTER sites measuring ecosystem processes in one or a very limited number of habitats. Complex sites are classical LTSER sites investigating processes and fluxes on a landscape or regional level or form the bracket over a number of LTER or simple sites.
organisation design
a local or regional socio-ecological complex, containing – natural, man-controlled and man-created and dominated ecosystems –, provides not only a multi-site research platform where inter and trans-disciplinary knowledge are produced, a space where the operational infrastructure, policies and adaptive management plans for sustainability can be designed, developed and tested. , "[http://www.lter-europe.net/sites-platforms/categories] (Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research): Modular LTER-facility consisting of sites which are located in an area with defined boundaries. Besides this physical component, LTSER-Platforms provide multiple services like the networking of client groups (e.g. research, local stakeholders), data management, communication and representation (management component). The elements of LTSER Platforms represent the main habitats, land use forms and practices relevant for the broader region (up to 10000 km²) and cover all scales and levels relevant for LTSER (from local to landscape). LTSER-Platforms should represent economic and social units or coincide/overlap with such units where adequate information on land use history, economy and demography is available to allow for socio-ecological research.
platform
plot
complex site
sub site
simple site
Sensor
network
lodging
no lodging
medium size lodging
unknown number of beds
small size lodging
large size lodging
The data type 'Staff room and lodging' describes availability of a working space and lodging at the research site.
staff room
small size staff room
large size staff room
no staff room
unknown number of places
medium size staff room
transportation
snow mobile
vehicle 4WD
boat
helicopter
vehicle 2WD
working environment for researcher
workplace
laboratory
field laboratory
This concept addresses spatial (e.g. plot, landscape scale) and temporal (e.g. day, year) scales of research projects.
scale
[Robert J. Beichner] SCALE-UP is an extension of the highly successful IMPEC project (Integrated Math, Physics, Engineering, and Chemistry), one of NC State's curricular reform efforts undertaken as part of the SUCCEED coalition...
scaling up
[Siquan Tian] Spatial scale is an important factor that needs to be considered in data collection and analysis in ecological studies. Studies focusing on the quantitative evaluation of impacts of spatial scales are, however, limited in fisheries...
temporal scales
temporal scale
scale dependence
ecosystem approach
local scale
global scale
regional scale
national scale
field scale
subcatchment scale
continental scale
catchment scale
plot scale
ecotron scale
beyond catchment scale
micro site scale
landscape scale
catchment area