BESSD: Biological and Environmental Systems Science Directorate
The BESSD platform supports plant science and environmental research, integrating multiple subsystems:
- APPL for plant phenotyping.
- SOILCOSM for soil ecosystem studies.
- VOC for plant volatile monitoring.
Key Features
- Imaging, environmental monitoring, and gas exchange analysis.
- Modular experiments tracked with precise deployment metadata.
- Integration with ontologies for plants, soils, and chemical properties.
Data & Provenance
- All systems and sensors are linked through ssn:Deployment.
- Observations include plant traits, VOC emissions, and soil dynamics.
- Each dataset includes prov:Activity traces and citations to methods.
FAIR Compliance
- Semantic annotations for genotypes, treatments, and conditions.
- DOIs or URIs assigned to datasets and workflows.
- Interoperable metadata modeled with DCAT and SSN.