Example pipeline for FIA

[jhamman]

Source Dataset

The Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) dataset from the U.S. Forest Service is a collection of in situ observations of forest parameters.

• https://apps.fs.usda.gov/fia/datamart/CSV/datamart_csv.html
• CSV
• One file per data stream - total about 30 CSVs.
• Individual CSV or bulk Zip file
  • Bulk zip file: https://apps.fs.usda.gov/fia/datamart/CSV/ENTIRE.zip
  • Individual CSV: https://apps.fs.usda.gov/fia/datamart/CSV/PLOT.csv
• No registration or authentication required

Transformation / Alignment / Merging

Just some clean up of the CSVs, data type parsing, etc. There isn't a natural way to concatenate this dataset.

Output Dataset

30 parquet datasets

[rabernat]

This requires pangeo-forge/pangeo-forge-recipes#94.