SHIFT: Vegetation Plot Characterization, Santa Barbara County, CA, 2022

This dataset contains vegetation plot locations, descriptions, fractional cover, and sample identifier information from surveys conducted as part of the 2022 NASA Surface Biology Geology (SBG) High Frequency Time series (SHIFT) campaign. Surveys took place from 2022-02-23 to 2022-09-27 at the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve, Sedgwick Reserve, and Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve, which are located in Santa Barbara County, California, USA. This project collected field data contemporaneously with weekly flights of the NASA Airborne Visible-Infrared Imaging Spectrometer-Next Generation (AVIRIS-NG) facility instrument over the study areas. Plot information includes: plot tree subform, species lists, plot description, plot samples characterization, and plot location and contextual information. Related data packages contain additional biogeochemical, reflectance, and foliar data. Survey data and metadata are presented in comma-separated values (.csv) format along with survey plot polygons in GeoJSON (.geojson) format.