Reference collection
Earth observation, filed as records
Observations of the planet — its land, its atmosphere and its oceans — held as records rather than as articles reporting them.
What’s on this shelf
Filed alongside the research and agricultural collections, so an observation and the work built on it can be read from one place.
What one record is
One observation, filed as the kind of record it is rather than as a page describing it.
Every record also keeps the address it was read from, so any answer built on it can be followed back to the original.
What you can do with it
What this collection is kept for.
Find the observation itself
Describe what you are looking for and reach the record, rather than the news story that summarised it.
Read it beside the science
It sits next to the research and agriculture collections, so an observation and the papers around it turn up together.
Follow it back
Every record keeps the address it was read from, so an observation can be checked at source.
What it is not good for
known limits- It is not imagery, and it is not a mapping service. These are records of observations, not the pictures behind them.
- It is not a monitoring alert. Records are read as they are published; nothing here watches for a threshold on your behalf.
Where it’s used
Research
Research reads this collection when a question crosses from the literature into what was actually measured.
Read, filed and kept current.
This collection is one shelf of the askFinz index — material read from the source and filed as the kind of thing it is, rather than as undifferentiated web pages. The counts above are read from the running system.