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Slot: elevation (elev)

Elevation of the sampling site is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly the mean sea level. Elevation is mainly used when referring to points on the earth's surface, while altitude is used for points above the surface, such as an aircraft in flight or a spacecraft in orbit.

URI: MIXS:0000093

Inheritance

Applicable Classes

Name Description Modifies Slot
FieldResearchSite A site, outside of a laboratory, from which biosamples may be collected no
Biosample Biological source material which can be characterized by an experiment yes

Properties

Aliases

  • elevation

Examples

Value
100 meter

Identifier and Mapping Information

Annotations

property value
expected_value measurement value

Schema Source

LinkML Source

name: elev
annotations:
  expected_value:
    tag: expected_value
    value: measurement value
description: Elevation of the sampling site is its height above a fixed reference
  point, most commonly the mean sea level. Elevation is mainly used when referring
  to points on the earth's surface, while altitude is used for points above the surface,
  such as an aircraft in flight or a spacecraft in orbit.
title: elevation
examples:
- value: 100 meter
from_schema: https://w3id.org/nmdc/nmdc
aliases:
- elevation
rank: 1000
is_a: environment field
slot_uri: MIXS:0000093
multivalued: false
alias: elev
domain_of:
- FieldResearchSite
- Biosample
range: QuantityValue