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This map shows the elevation of our study site in Harvard Forest. From the
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legend, we can see that the maximum elevation is ~ 400, but we can't tell whether
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- this is 400 feet or 400 meters because the legend doesn't show us the units. We
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- can look at the metadata of our object to see what the units are. Much of the
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- metadata that we're interested in is part of the CRS. We introduced the
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+ this is 400 feet or 400 meters because the legend doesn't show us the units.
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+ Unfortunately, nothing in the technical metadata (that which is built into
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+ the file format) tells us what the _ vertical_ resolution is. For now you will
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+ have to trust us that it is meters.
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+ However, we can look at the metadata of our object to see what the horizontal
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+ units are: in other words how many meters from the origin are the
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+ x and y points. That metadata, is part of the CRS. We introduced the
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concept of a CRS in [ an earlier
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lesson] ( https://datacarpentry.org/organization-geospatial/03-crs ) .
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@@ -232,7 +238,7 @@ crs(DSM_HARV, proj = TRUE)
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## Challenge
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- What units are our data in?
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+ What units are our horizontal data in?
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::::::::::::::: solution
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