Baobabs in Africa Mapped (BAM) usies crowdsourcing to map and assess the location and health of baobab (Adansonia sp.) trees across Africa.
# A dataset of baobab trees and their comparators from across Africa
This repository contains the data and code used to reproduce the Quality Assurance and Quality Control Checks (QAQC) procedures, analyses and figures presented in:
> Chafika Phiri, Andrew M. Cunliffe, Sarah Venter, Aisha T. Bello, Alan D. Nare, Adler Santana Medeiros, Dawn Cory-Toussaint, Dave Hodgson, Kenneth F. Egbadzor, Lena Grieger, Nicholas Bii, Okopi Ade, & Tapiwa Gumbo. (Year). *Paper title*. Journal. DOI:
doi.org...
A permanent version of this repository is archived at
Use of this code is licensed under
Contact Chafika Phiri at Email: cp844@exeter.ac.uk
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## Project overview
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## Repository contents
The analysis is managed as a targets pipeline. Execution order is declared Targets) and resolved automatically, so scripts are not numbered.
### Scripts
| Script | Description |
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| *_targets.R* | States each step and its dependencies. |
| *functions.R* | Helper functions called during data prepartion. |
| *Convert_Degrees_to_Decimal.R* | Conversion of coordinates from degrees–minutes–seconds to decimal degrees. |
| *QAQC_BAM_Data.qmd* | Performs all quality assurance and quality control checks, and writes the shareable dataset. |
| *Summary_Report_BAM.qmd* | Produces summary statistics, distribution maps and figures. |
### Data
| File | Description |
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| *BAM_data_for_public.csv* | Cleaned dataset for public release. |
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## Acknowledgements
We gratefully acknowledge financial support from Few and Far Collection within the Oppenheimer Programme in African Landscape Systems (OPALS) (
opals-exeter.org), which enabled Chafika Phiri's research.
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