TERN Geospatial Catalogue
SLATS Star Transects - Australian field sites
The SLATS star transect field dataset has been compiled as a record of vegetative and non-vegetative fractional cover as recorded in situ according to the method described in <a href=" https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236022381_Field_measurement_of_fractional_ground_cover">Muir et al (2011)</a>. The datasets are a combination of vegetation fractions collected in three strata - non-woody vegetation including vegetative litter near the soil surface, woody vegetation less than 2 metres, and woody vegetation greater than 2 metres - at homogeneous areas of approximately 1 hectare. This dataset is compiled from a variety of sources, including available sites from the ABARES ground cover reference sites database.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2013-09-13
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-01-04
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-09-01
- Edition
- 1.0.0
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Author
Department of Environment and Science, Queensland Government
Ecosciences Precinct, 41 Boggo Road
Dutton Park
QLD
4102
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- The SLATS star transect data has been collected to calibrate and validate large area fractional cover spatial datasets derived from remote sensing, that are produced regularly—monthly, seasonally, annually—enabling change in ground cover to be monitored consistently across Australia.
- Credit
- The following organisations have contributed to the data collection: Joint Remote Sensing Research Project, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Curtin University, University of Adelaide, CSIRO, Northern Territory Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Western Australian Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development. <br> This work was funded by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an Australian Government National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) project.
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
Department of Environment and Science, Queensland Government - Farrell, Rebecca ()
Ecosciences Precinct, 41 Boggo Road
Dutton Park
QLD
4102
Australia
Spatial resolution
- Level of detail
- 30 meters - < 100 meters
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- Environment
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- Description
- Australia
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- Time period
- 1997-01-01
- Title
- Muir, J, Schmidt, M, Tindall, D, Trevithick, R, Scarth, P & Stewart, JB (2011). Field Measurement of fractional ground cover: a technical handbook supporting ground cover monitoring for Australia, QLD Department of Environment and Science
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Muir, J, Schmidt, M, Tindall, D, Trevithick, R, Scarth, P & Stewart, JB (2011). Field Measurement of fractional ground cover: a technical handbook supporting ground cover monitoring for Australia, QLD Department of Environment and Science
Related documentation
- Title
- Trevithick, R., Muir, J. & Denham, R (2012). The effect of observer experience levels on the variability of fractional ground cover reference data. Proceeding of the 16th Annual ARSPC, Melbourne, Australia, August 31 - September 4th 2012.
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Trevithick, R., Muir, J. & Denham, R (2012). The effect of observer experience levels on the variability of fractional ground cover reference data. Proceeding of the 16th Annual ARSPC, Melbourne, Australia, August 31 - September 4th 2012.
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- 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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- TERN services are provided on an "as-is" and "as available" basis. Users use any TERN services at their discretion and risk. They will be solely responsible for any damage or loss whatsoever that results from such use including use of any data obtained through TERN and any analysis performed using the TERN infrastructure. <br/>Web links to and from external, third party websites should not be construed as implying any relationships with and/or endorsement of the external site or its content by TERN. <br /><br />Please advise any work or publications that use this data via the online form at https://www.tern.org.au/research-publications/#reporting
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- Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.
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- Copyright 2010 - 2020. JRSRP. Rights owned by the Joint Remote Sensing Research Program.
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- Unclassified
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Data File (CSV) via JRSRP Geoserver
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Data is also available at JRSRP Field Data Portal
Data is also available at JRSRP Field Data Portal
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star_transect_data_attributes.txt
Data file
Data quality info
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- Dataset
- Other
- Data has been collected in accordance with the national guidelines outlined in Muir et al (2011) (see References for full details). Locational accuracy of the data varies with site and GPS available. See the attribute data for details.
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Result
- Statement
- The effect of various observers collecting the data has been investigated by Trevithick et al (2012) (See References for full details).
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Process step
- Description
- Star transect locations are selected to cover homogenous areas of approximately 1 hectare. A summary of the field data collection process is <a href="https://ternaus.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TERNSup/pages/2222456833/SLATS+Star+Transect+Protocol">here</a>.
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- Protocol
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/WGS84 (EPSG:4326)
Metadata
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urn:uuid/24a40c29-0d7c-4fe8-bdde-9c4ea495bfb8
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- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- 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/24a40c29-0d7c-4fe8-bdde-9c4ea495bfb8
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2008-11-12T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2014-06-27T11:07:36
Metadata standard
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- ISO 19115-1:2014/AMD 1:2018 Geographic information - Metadata - Fundamentals
- Edition
- 1
Metadata standard
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- ISO/TS 19115-3:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
Metadata standard
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- 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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