https://docs.akveg.org/categories/technical-reference/Recent content in Technical Reference on Documentation for the AKVEG ProjectHugoen-ushttps://docs.akveg.org/docs/database/data-schema/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://docs.akveg.org/docs/database/data-schema/<h1 id="navigating-the-database"> Navigating the Database <a class="anchor" href="#navigating-the-database">#</a> </h1> <p>The tables in the AKVEG Database can be broadly classified into data tables, referenced tables, and metadata tables.</p> <p>Data tables contain information on vegetation, environmental, and soils characteristics, as well as information about the plots at which these data were collected (e.g., plot coordinates, dimensions).</p> <p>Referenced tables are referenced by the data tables to constrain the set of allowable values in a field. For example, the <code>cover type id</code> field in the vegetation_cover table references the cover_type table. The cover_type table specifies the types of methods that can be used to collect cover data.</p>