dwc:decimalLongitude
A term from the Darwin Core standard:
The geographic longitude (in decimal degrees, using the spatial reference system given in dwc:geodeticDatum) of the geographic center of a dcterms:Location. Positive values are east of the Greenwich Meridian, negative values are west of it. Legal values lie between -180 and 180, inclusive.
Examples
- -121.1761111
Reference
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Wieczorek J., Bloom D., Guralnick R., Blum S., Döring M., Giovanni R. et al. 2012 Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-Developed Biodiversity Data Standard. PLOS ONE. Vol. 7, (1) p. e29715. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029715
Related Data
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Properties
Label
decimalLongitude
EUPH UID
[0.0.LNGTD332]
IRI
http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/decimalLongitude
EUPH IRI
https://app.pollinatorhub.eu/vocabulary/descriptors/0.0.LNGTD332
Data types
Decimal (float)
Unit
degree
Deprecated
No
Published
2023-11-15
Updated
2025-02-06
Descriptor relationships
Statistic
Number of datasets
12
Number of columns
23
Number of data points
510
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