For traits such as NDVI or specific leaf area, multiple methods may be used in a single dataset. This suggests that the IDD needs to accommodate:
- Descriptions of how a specific variable was measured.
- Variants of a single variable.
My suggestion is to include a new category Protocols under Dataset and define variables for documenting protocols. To handle variants of a single variable, the easiest approach would be to add a suffix with a number. For example, NDVI variants might be NDVI_01, NDVI_02 ... For a studying comparing methods, we might have more than nine variants, so I'd keep the leading 0.
For traits such as NDVI or specific leaf area, multiple methods may be used in a single dataset. This suggests that the IDD needs to accommodate:
My suggestion is to include a new category Protocols under Dataset and define variables for documenting protocols. To handle variants of a single variable, the easiest approach would be to add a suffix with a number. For example, NDVI variants might be NDVI_01, NDVI_02 ... For a studying comparing methods, we might have more than nine variants, so I'd keep the leading 0.