Getting Started

Welcome to the LUYF tools pages!

These tools allow you to access all publicly available data from the LifeUnderYourFeet.org site. You can use our data to learn about the conditions in the soil on a much wider range of spatial and temporal scalesthan before.

The Getting Started pages will tell you what types of data are available on LUYF, and which tools are best for accessing which types of data. These tools give you many different ways of looking at our data. Some tools also have help pages that will give you more specific information on how to use the tool.

Types of Data

LUYF offers access to many different types of data, but most users will usually focus on the following: patches, nodes, raw data from the nodes, calibrated data form the nodes, various external events and related background weather data. The table below shows what each type of data means:

To learn about the other types of data available on LUYF, read through the Object Browser.

Tools

The table below gives a short description of each of LUYF's tools, listed from the most simple and general to the most complex and specialized. The table also shows when you might use each tool, based on what information you know already and what information you want to find out. Click on the name of a tool for more information on what it does and how to use it.

Other Resources

• Documentation gives you information that will help you use the LUYF database to write queries in the Query tool. The Object Browser tells you what each item in the database means.