Description
Compare plot revisit timing with a target and tolerance.
Conservation monitoring depends on survey effort, detection assumptions, area/time bases and explicit unknown-status policies. A local probability or coverage ratio describes supplied observations and models without establishing population abundance, ecological success or legal protection.
Compare plot revisit timing with a target and tolerance.
When to use this tool
Use Restoration Plot Revisit Gap when checking a supplied conservation-monitoring, geometry or evidence-basis convention.
How to use the tool and how it works
- Enter firstVisitDate, revisitDate, targetIntervalDays, allowedToleranceDays. Use the units and conventions below.
- Run the tool. Correct any format, range, or cross-field input error before interpreting the output.
- Read elapsedDays, intervalGap, insideSuppliedTolerance. Inspect insideSuppliedTolerance before interpreting the associated values.
Compare plot revisit timing with a target and tolerance. Validate real date-only strings and nonnegative whole target/tolerance days; elapsedDays is UTC difference/86400000, intervalGap = elapsed-target, insideSuppliedTolerance includes equality.1
| Input field | Meaning and units | Accepted input |
|---|---|---|
| firstVisitDate | Real Gregorian YYYY-MM-DD; modern helper permits four-digit years 0000-9999. | Required. Text; maximum UTF-16 length 8192. Real proleptic Gregorian YYYY-MM-DD; four-digit years 0000-9999 accepted. |
| revisitDate | Real Gregorian YYYY-MM-DD on the same UTC day basis; can precede first visit. | Required. Text; maximum UTF-16 length 8192. Real proleptic Gregorian YYYY-MM-DD; four-digit years 0000-9999 accepted. |
| targetIntervalDays | Target Interval Days | Required. Safe integer; minimum 0. |
| allowedToleranceDays | Allowed Tolerance Days | Required. Safe integer; minimum 0. |
| Output field | Interpretation | Returned shape |
|---|---|---|
| elapsedDays | Elapsed Days | Required. Safe integer. |
| intervalGap | Interval Gap | Required. Safe integer. |
| insideSuppliedTolerance | Inside Supplied Tolerance | Required. Boolean. |
{
"input": {
"firstVisitDate": "2024-01-01",
"revisitDate": "2024-01-08",
"targetIntervalDays": 5,
"allowedToleranceDays": 1
},
"output": {
"elapsedDays": 7,
"intervalGap": 2,
"insideSuppliedTolerance": false
}
}Limitations and assumptions
- Signed revisit gaps are allowed; Gregorian elapsed days and supplied tolerance do not establish an appropriate ecological monitoring schedule.
- Inputs must satisfy both the field types and the cross-field conditions above. Invalid input causes an error; a successful false flag or documented placeholder is a different result.
- Numeric calculations use binary floating point unless exact decimal-integer arithmetic is explicitly stated. No hidden measurement tolerance or decimal rounding is added; nonfinite or out-of-contract results are rejected. Numeric signed-zero results are exported as zero.
Alternative or Complementary methods
Use an appropriate ecological sampling and detection model, verified field records and actual habitat geometry for substantive conservation inference.
References
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