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4 datasets found

  • Supporting information for case study on the application of spore sampling for the monitoring of macrofungi

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    Resources associated with the manuscript A case study on the application of spore sampling for the monitoring of macrofungi ([Schlegel et al....

    Last updated: September 10, 2024

    • ZIP
    • air-sampling
    • environmental-dna
    • metabarcoding
    • monitoring
    • spore-dispersal
  • Automatic detection of avalanches

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    This dataset contains the results obtained by an automatic classification using hidden Markov models of a continuous seismic dataset. To avoid long computational times, we reduced...

    Last updated: February 13, 2025

    • ZIP
    • avalanche-activity
    • hidden-markov-model
    • monitoring
    • seismic
    • snow
  • Repeated detection-nondetection data of corticolous lichens from a standardised monitoring across Switzerland

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    The available lichen data consists of detection/nondetection data (1/0) of 373 tree-inhabiting (corticolous) lichen species from 416 plots surveyed 1-2 times. The lichen data...

    Last updated: March 4, 2025

    • ZIP
    • bayesian-inference
    • biodiversity
    • cryptogams
    • detectability
    • detection-probability
    • inter-observer-difference
    • lichens
    • monitoring
    • observer-error
    • occupancy-model
    • sessile-species
    • swisslichens
  • Snow depth mapping by lidar station Braemabuel

    EnviDat: the Environmental Data Portal
    Education, culture and sport

    We developed a monitoring system using low-cost lidar (Livox Avia) and optical sensors, to measure snow depth variations in an avalanche release area at a high spatiotemporal scale...

    Last updated: May 16, 2025

    • ZIP
    • avalanche
    • lidar
    • low-cost
    • monitoring
    • snow
    • wind-drifted-snow