TERN Geospatial Catalogue
Ground Cover Reference Sites Database of Northern Territory
The Ground Cover Reference Sites Database of Northern Territory has been collected by Department of Natural Resources, Environment, The Arts and Sport, Northern Territory as part of the Ground Cover Monitoring for Australia project. The data is being used to calibrate, validate and improve vegetation fractional cover products derived from remote sensing, in particular the satellite sensors MODIS and Landsat. The data is being used to improve the national fractional vegetation cover product of Guerschman et al. (2009) derived from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). This algorithm enables national, monthly identification of ground cover separating the photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic components by applying a linear unmixing methodology for spectral reflectance every 8 days as 16-day composites. For confidence in its ground cover estimates, the results were verified in the field at selected sites across Australia to allow more extensive calibration, validation and verification of accuracy of the remote sensing method. The Ground Cover Reference Sites Database represents the results of the field validation of remotely determined cover measurements by observing cover along point intersects with a total of 300 points (or 200 points with crops). It also has additional observations and measures such as landscape features, fire evidence, erosion evidence, biotic disturbance evidence, biomass estimates, basal area measurements, soil features and dominant vegetation species, as well as site photographs. The Ground Cover Reference Sites Database focuses on sites in extensive grazing systems of the rangelands and, to a lesser extent, in the mixed farming or intensive land use zone. Field validation aims at obtaining a wide spatial coverage of sites, with limited site revisits for temporal coverage.
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Identification info
- Date (Publication)
- 2012-01-01
- Date (Revision)
- 2012-01-01
- Edition
- 9/2014
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- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Stylosanthes hamata
- Eragrostis sp.
- Geology
- Sclerolaena cuneata
- Cynodon dactylon
- Allocasuarina decaisneana
- Codonocarpus sp.
- Zygochloa paradoxa
- Heteropogon contortus
- Corymbia terminalis
- Grevillea striata
- Acacia tetragonophylla
- Disturbance
- Senna artemisioides subsp. oligophylla
- Chloris gayana
- Erythrophleum chlorostachys
- Eucalyptus chlorophylla
- Hakea arborescens
- Ventilago viminalis
- Eremophila sturtii
- Digitaria brownii
- Eriachne obtusa
- Corymbia foelscheana
- Eucalyptus tectifica
- Acacia murrayana
- Eulalia mackinlayi
- Sclerolaena sp.
- Acacia sp.
- Maireana astrotricha
- Acacia ligulata
- Wedelia sp.
- Themeda avenacea
- Eriachne ciliata
- Sorghum plumosum
- Iseilema membranaceum
- Eremophila sp.
- Eucalyptus camaldulensis
- Aristida inaequiglumis
- Senna artemisioides
- Petalostigma pubescens
- Corymbia dichromophloia
- Eucalyptus microtheca
- Corymbia polycarpa
- Corymbia bella
- Corymbia opaca
- Triodia microstachya
- Acacia sutherlandii
- Senna artemisioides subsp. artemisioides
- Soil
- Erythrina vespertilio
- Grewia retusifolia
- Flora
- Pennisetum ciliare
- Triodia bitextura
- Enneapogon polyphyllus
- Corymbia umbonata
- Grevillea refracta
- Polymeria longifolia
- Melaleuca viridiflora
- Erosion
- Acacia platycarpa
- Santalum lanceolatum
- Atalaya hemiglauca
- Eucalyptus gamophylla
- Dichanthium sericeum
- Astrebla elymoides
- Uraria lagapoides
- Sporobolus australasicus
- Eremophila macondelensiss
- Flemingia pauciflora
- Sclerolaena anisacanthoides
- Enneapogon cylindricus
- Sehima nervosum
- Sorghum intrans
- Terminalia platyptera
- Astrebla pectinata
- Templetonia hookeri
- Schizachyrium fragile
- Aristida holathera
- Corymbia ferruginea
- Eremophila duttonii
- Acacia gonocarpa
- Tripogon loliiformis
- Livistona humilis
- Dichanthium sp.
- Eucalyptus leucophloia
- Abutilon hannii
- Acacia victoriae
- Grevillea dryandri
- Brachyachne convergens
- Sclerostegia sp.
- Acacia tenuissima
- Corymbia apperenjii
- Corymbia pachycarpa
- Acacia phlebocarpa
- Land Cover
- Eucalyptus tetrodonta
- Brachiaria humidicola
- Terminalia latipes
- Caltropis procera
- Eremophila latrobei
- Tecticornia verrucosa
- Terminalia volucris
- Syzygium eucalyptoides
- Distichostemon hispidulus
- Eragrostis xerophila
- Eucalyptus brevifolia
- Mnesithea formosa
- Astrebla squarrosa
- Sida fibulifera
- Eramophila macdonellensis
- Acacia georginae
- Enneapogon avenaceus
- Lithology
- Maireana georgei
- Atriplex spongiosa
- Gyrocarpus americanus
- Cenchrus ciliaris
- Grevillea stenobotrya
- Eriachne avenacea
- Eremophila longifolia
- Brachychiton paradoxus
- Aristida latifolia
- Eucalyptus miniata
- Chrysopogon fallax
- Hakea divaricata
- Eragrostis eriopoda
- Carissa lanceolata
- Acacia bidentata f. australis
- Erythroxylum ellipticum
- Aristida sp.
- Melaleuca nervosa
- Jacksonia dilatata
- Vachellia ditricha
- Heliotropium ventricosum
- Triodia basedowii
- Eucalyptus pruinosa
- Acacia coreceae
- Melaleuca citrolens
- Acacia lamprocarpa
- Acacia estrophiolata
- Gardenia ewartii subsp. ewartii
- Frankenia sessifolia
- Petalostigma quadriloculare
- Iseilema macratherum
- Corchorus sidoides
- Terminalia canescens
- Aristida contorta
- Vegetation Cover
- Eulalia aurea
- Fimbristylis dichotoma
- Terminalia arostrata
- Land Use
- Sesbania cannabina
- Cyperus sp.
- Eucalyptus coolabah subsp. arida
- Acacia monticola
- Aristida hygrometrica
- Vegetation Structure
- Iseilema fragile
- Centrosema pascuorum
- Acacia farnesiana
- Aristida ingrata
- Acacia wickhamii
- Species Presence/Abundance
- Hakea lorea
- Maytenus cunninghamii
- Sporobolus actinocladus
- Dichanthium fecundum
- Chenopodiaceae sp.
- Jacquemontia browniana
- Triodia pungens
- Sclerolaena bicornis
- Acacia kempeana
- Dodonaea physocarpa
- Acacia orthocarpa
- Corymbia confertiflora
- Maireana sp.
- Senna artemisioides subsp. filifolia
- Acacia holosericea
- Corymbia grandifolia
- Panicum decompositum
- Eremophila neglecta
- Hyptis suaveolens
- Landscape
- Sclerolaena diacantha
- Acacia hammondii
- Eriachne burkittii
- Enteropogon ramosus
- Themeda triandra
- Ptilotus sessilifolius
- Acacia hemignosta
- Grevillea wickhamii
- Tecticornia sp.
- Bauhinia cunninghamii
- Acacia aneura
- Crotalaria sp.
- Calotropis procera
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- ANZSRC Socio-economic Objective
Extent
- Description
- Survey of the Ground Cover Reference Sites Database of Northern Territory area.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2011-05-23 2014-05-27
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license allows others to copy, distribute, display, and create derivative works provided that they credit the original source and any other nominated parties. Details are provided at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- These data can be freely downloaded via the TERN AEKOS and used subject to the null licence. Attribution and citation is required as described under Licence and Citation. We ask you to send citations of publications arising from work that use these data to esupport@tern.org.au and citation and copies of publications to land_management@agriculture.gov.au.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
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- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
- http://aekos.org.au/collection/gov.au/abares/gcrs_NT
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:3577
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/005af247-3416-59c9-9774-674e472276f5
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID - Advanced Ecological Knowledge and Observation System
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/005af247-3416-59c9-9774-674e472276f5
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2012-06-30T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2017-05-01T00:00:00
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-1:2014/AMD 1:2018 Geographic information - Metadata - Fundamentals
- Edition
- 1
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19115-3:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19157-2:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
- Title
- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-3:2016 and ISO 19157-2:2016
- Date (published)
- 2021
- Edition
- 1.0
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