The data set is the vegetation sample survey photos of Qilian County in Qinghai Province during the second comprehensive scientific expedition to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Iincluding the survey photos of 28 sample points in Qilian County in 2020. The photos of each sample point are placed in a separate In a folder, the folder is named the sample number. The photos of each sample point include photos of the landscape around the sample point, photos of the plant community in the sample square and close-up photos of the dominant species. The vegetation in the sample can be observed The status of the community, the status of the soil surface and the slope of the surrounding sampling area, human interference, etc. The photos are all original images, in jpg format, taken with a mobile phone or camera, and the specific latitude and longitude information of the sampling points are in a separate Excel table in the compressed package In, you can compare and view.

File naming and required software

The file is in 7z compressed package format, which can be decompressed and opened by 7-Zip software. It is divided into 28 survey photos of sample points. The photos of each sample point are placed in a folder. The photos are in JPG format. The folder is named as the number of sample points. The date after each folder is the sampling date. The specific longitude and latitude information of sample points can be viewed in Excel.
Any image reading software can be opened.

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Shang, Z. (2021). Survey photos of vegetation sample plots for the second comprehensive scientific investigation of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in Qilian County (2020). A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles, DOI: 10.11888/Ecolo.tpdc.271439. CSTR: 18406.11.Ecolo.tpdc.271439. (Download the reference： RIS | Bibtex )

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Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition Program

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