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Field inventory and monitoring
Repeated observation or sampling at a site, on a scheduled or event basis, for study and analysis. In general, this category excludes sampling programs in which materials are obtained in the field and brought back to a laboratory for study and analysis.
Subtopics:
Acoustic methods (33 items)
Borehole logging (7 items)
CTD measurement (1 items)
Ecosystem monitoring (62 items)
Electromagnetic surveying (11 items)
Handheld field spectroscopy (1 items)
Seismic methods (44 items)
Stream-gage measurement (137 items)
Telemetry (13 items)
Tiltmeter measurement (5 items)
Video monitoring (6 items)
Vocalization methods (2 items)
Animal and plant census (21 items)
Optical methods (3 items)
Gravimeter measurement (4 items)
Magnetometer measurement (1 items)
Tomography (1 items)
Statistical surveying (1 items)

Ocean current measurement (2 items)
Ocean monitoring (31 items)
Ocean wave measurement (3 items)
Volcano monitoring (15 items)
Weather monitoring (50 items)
Weather observations (50 items)
Precipitation measurement (10 items)
Rainfall measurement (10 items)
Snowfall measurement (10 items)
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