organize_files - PNHP/Regional_SDM GitHub Wiki

Our efforts will be made easier with similar file and folder organization and naming conventions among programs.

Overview of what we need:

• A place (places) to store final versions of the environmental data sets (rasters)

• ArcGIS versions (GDB)

• versions that can be read by R (such as GeoTiff)

• native R versions

• A place for data related to background points

• study area boundaries

• background random points

• attributed background random points

• A place for species input data

• polygon data, merged by species

• random point data, generated from polygon data

• attributed random point data

• A place for outputs

• saved RData files, one for each species that gets modeled

• metadata outputs, which probably involved multiple files for each species

• the actual model prediction, a GIS raster surface. At least two for each species (continuous, binary).

• A database to hold

• lookup tables to simplify some of the scripting

• model run information

• some of the model output information?

• A place to hold our scripts, integrated into a version tracking system (git!).

Here's my thoughts about how this may fit together (windows command for creating this: tree RegionalSDM /A > sdmTree.txt)

E:\REGIONALSDM
+---databases
+---env_vars
|   \---old
+---inputs
|   +---background
|   \---species
|       \---glypmuhl
+---outputs
|   \---glypmuhl
|       +---shapefiles
|       +---metadata
|       \---rdata
\---scripts