NCDP Data Standards and Procedures: metadata schema, naming conventions, data structure, QA/QC and coastal change indicators for the National Coastal Drone Program

The data standards of the National Coastal Drone Program (NCDP), a nationally coordinated archive of UAV (drone) coastal survey data, coordinated by Deakin University and funded by AuScope through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). They define the archive's directory structure and processing levels (L0 to L4), the file and folder naming conventions, the metadata schema (version 5.0, the archive's 131-column survey record), the quality-assurance and quality-control protocol and who acts on each finding, the templates contributors use when submitting surveys through the NCDP intake portal or by SFTP, and the methods of the coastal change indicators (shoreline and backshore position and trends, elevation and volume change, behavioural regime, erosion warning and hotspots) and site reports.