The following steps will guide you through creating Point Count sampling units. Sampling units are defined in a hierarchy, with each level having 2 names: a short name (a brief, upper case identifier with no spaces) and a long name (a longer, descriptive name that can be the same as short name or contain more detail). The combination of short name and long name must be unique in your project.
Go to the Bulk Uploader (https://data.pointblue.org/science/projectmanager/bulk_uploader), select your project, choose the Add Sampling Units tab, select “Point Count” and click the “Download CSV Template” button.
Fill this template out with one point per row.
Columns A and B : Study Area Name (short name) and Study Area Long Name (long name). Study areas are how you organize your data for analysis or management. Some projects simply create a single study area the entire project. You must have at least 1 study area in your project.
Columns C and D : Point Count Transect Name (short) and Point Count Transect Long Name (long). Transects are collections of points that get analyzed as statistical replicates.
Columns E and F : Point Count Point Name (short) and Point Count Point Long Name (long). Each point is defined on separate lines, with Transect names repeated for all of the points you want organized together.
Columns G and H - Latitude and Longitude (in decimal degrees, WGS 84 datum) - optional location for each point.
Once you have the spreadsheet filled out, save it as a CSV, and bulk load it in the same location as in step 1 above.
To verify that the points uploaded correctly, go to Project Leaders (https://data.pointblue.org/apps/projectleaders), Sampling Units > Download, select the project, and open up the tree control – this should reflect the organization you just created. If you added latitude / longitude values, select all and download GIS data to either ESRI Shape file or Google Earth (KML) and open the file in a GIS tool to make sure they are located and labeled correctly.