TERN Geospatial Catalogue
Seasonal fractional cover - Sentinel-2, JRSRP algorithm, Eastern and Central Australia coverage
This product has been superseded and will not be processed from early 2023. Please find the updated version 3 of this product at https://portal.tern.org.au/metadata/23881.
The seasonal fractional cover product shows representative values for the proportion of bare, green and non-green cover, created from a time series of Sentinel 2 imagery. It is a spatially explicit raster product, which predicts vegetation cover at medium resolution (10 m per-pixel) for each 3-month calendar season. The green and non-green fractions may include a mix of woody and non-woody vegetation.
This model was originally developed for Landsat imagery, but has been adapted for us with Sentinel-2 imagery to produce a 10 m resolution equivalent product.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2018-01-20
- Date (Publication)
- 2021-09-23
- Date (Revision)
- 2014-07-14
- Edition
- 1.0
Publisher
Author
Joint Remote Sensing Research Program
Chamberlain Building (35), Campbell Road, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia
St Lucia
QLD
4072
Australia
Co-author
Department of Environment and Science, Queensland Government
41 Boggo Road, Dutton Park, QLD, 4102, Australia
Dutton Park
QLD
4102
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- This product captures variability in fractional cover at seasonal (ie three-monthly) time scales, forming a consistent time series from late 2015 - present. It is useful for investigating recent inter-annual changes in vegetation cover and analysing regional comparisons. For applications that focus on non-woody vegetation, the landsat-derived ground cover product, may be more suitable. For applications investigating rapid change during a season, monthly composite or single-date (available on request) fractional cover products may be more appropriate. Note: A new fractional cover algorithm will be implemented during 2021, based on additional field validation and a new machine learning approach.
- Credit
- We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
- Credit
- This dataset was produced by the Joint Remote Sensing Research Program using data sourced from the European Space Agency (ESA) Copernicus Sentinel Progam.
- Status
- Superseded
Point of contact
Department of Environment and Science, Queensland Government - van den Berg, Deanna ()
Ecosciences Precinct, 41 Boggo Road, Dutton Park, QLD, 4102, Australia
Ecosciences Precinct, 41 Boggo Road
Dutton Park
QLD
4102
Australia
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Imagery base maps earth cover
Extent
- Description
- Australia excluding Western Australia and South Australia
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2015-12-01
- Title
- Flood, N. (2013) Seasonal Composite Landsat TM/ETM+ Images Using the Medoid (a Multi-dimensional Median). Remote Sens. 2013, 5(12), 6481-6500; doi:10.3390/rs5126481
- Website
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Flood, N. (2013) Seasonal Composite Landsat TM/ETM+ Images Using the Medoid (a Multi-dimensional Median). Remote Sens. 2013, 5(12), 6481-6500; doi:10.3390/rs5126481
Related documentation
- Title
- Zhu, Z. and Woodcock, C.E. (2012). Object-based cloud and cloud shadow detection in Landsat imagery Remote Sensing of Environment 118. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2011.10.028
- Website
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Zhu, Z. and Woodcock, C.E. (2012). Object-based cloud and cloud shadow detection in Landsat imagery Remote Sensing of Environment 118. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2011.10.028
Related documentation
- Title
- Beutel Terrence S. et al (2019) VegMachine.net. online land cover analysis for the Australian rangelands. The Rangeland Journal 41. doi:10.1071/RJ19013
- Website
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Beutel Terrence S. et al (2019) VegMachine.net. online land cover analysis for the Australian rangelands. The Rangeland Journal 41. doi:10.1071/RJ19013
Related documentation
- Title
- Sentinel 2 Level 1C Processing
- Website
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Sentinel 2 Level 1C Processing
Related documentation
- Title
- Flood, N. (2017) Comparing Sentinel-2A and Landsat 7 and 8 Using Surface Reflectance over Australia. Remote Sens. 9, no. 7. doi:10.3390/rs9070659
- Website
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Flood, N. (2017) Comparing Sentinel-2A and Landsat 7 and 8 Using Surface Reflectance over Australia. Remote Sens. 9, no. 7. doi:10.3390/rs9070659
Related documentation
- Title
- Sentinel 2 Data Product Quality Reports
- Website
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Sentinel 2 Data Product Quality Reports
Related documentation
- Title
- Fractional vegetation cover from Sentinel-2
- Website
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Fractional vegetation cover from Sentinel-2
Related documentation
- Title
- Gill, T. et al (2017) A method for mapping Australian woody vegetation cover by linking continental-scale field data and long-term Landsat time series, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 38:3. doi: 10.1080/01431161.2016.1266112
- Website
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Gill, T. et al (2017) A method for mapping Australian woody vegetation cover by linking continental-scale field data and long-term Landsat time series, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 38:3. doi: 10.1080/01431161.2016.1266112
Related documentation
- Title
- Muir, J. et al (2011), Field measurement of fractional ground cover: supporting ground cover monitoring for Australia. ABARES. Canberra
- Website
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Muir, J. et al (2011), Field measurement of fractional ground cover: supporting ground cover monitoring for Australia. ABARES. Canberra
Related documentation
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Platform Vocabulary
- TERN Instrument Vocabulary
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
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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- 88x31.png
- File description
- CCBy Logo from creativecommons.org
- File type
- png
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- 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
- Other constraints
- It is not recommended that these data sets be used at scales more detailed than 1:100,000.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Supplemental Information
- A 4 band (byte) image is produced: band 1 – bare ground fraction (in percent) band 2 - green vegetation fraction (in percent) band 3 – non-green vegetation fraction (in percent) band 4 – Error Layer representing the RMSE between the predicted pixel value and the actual pixel value on a nominal scale of 0 (no error) to 100 (very large error).
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia, 4068
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
- OnLine resource
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Web Map Service
aus:sentinel_fractional
- OnLine resource
- Vegmachine Timeseries Viewer
- OnLine resource
- Seasonal fractional cover (tif)
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Other
- 1) All the data described here has been generated from the analysis of Sentinel-2 data, which has a spatial resolution of approximately 10 m in the Blue, Green, Red and Near Infra-red (NIR) bands, and 20 m in the two Short Wave Infra-red (SWIR) band. The 20 m bands have been resampled to 10 m using cubic convolution, to provide a consistent 10 m data set. The imagery is rectified during processing by the European Space Agency (ESA), and not modified spatially beyond that. 2) The fractional cover model was compared to samples drawn from 1500 field reference sites.
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Result
- Statement
- 1) The Sentinel-2 Data Quality Report from ESA indicates that positional accuracy is on the order of 12 m. 2) The fractional cover model (based on Landsat) achieved an overall model Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) of 11.6% against field reference sites.
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Summary of processing: Sentinel 2 surface reflectance data > multiple single-date fractional cover datasets > seasonal composite of fractional cover <br />Further details are provided in the Methods section.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Process step
- Description
- Image Pre-processing: Sentinel-2 data was downloaded from the ESA as Level 1C (version 02.04 system). Masks for cloud, cloud shadow, topographic shadow and water were applied as described in Flood (2017).
Process step
- Description
- Fractional Cover Model: The bare soil, green vegetation and non-green vegetation endmembers for the combination of Landsat-5 TM and Landsat-7 are calculated using models linked to an intensive field sampling program whereby more than 1500 sites covering a wide variety of vegetation, soil and climate types were sampled to measure overstorey and ground cover following the procedure outlined in Muir et al (2011). A constrained linear spectral unmixing is applied to the image archive using the derived endmembers and has an overall model Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) of 11.6%. The model originally developed using Landsat imagery has been adapted for Sentinel-2 imagery using the reflectance adjustment factors calculated by Flood (2017), to ensure consistency of reflectance data between the Landsat and Sentinel-2 instruments.
Process step
- Description
- Data Compositing: The method of compositing selected representative pixels through the determination of the medoid (multi-dimensional equivalent of the median) of at least three observations of fractional cover imagery. The medoid is the point which minimises the total distance between the selected point and all other points. Thus the selected point is “in the middle” of the set of points. It is robust against extreme values, inherently avoiding the selection of outliers, such as occurs when cloud or cloud shadow goes undetected. Unfortunately, due to the high level of cloud cover in some areas, often three cloud free pixels are not available, resulting in data gaps in the seasonal fractional cover image. For further details on this method see Flood (2013).
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- urn:uuid/30aa6403-5efb-47cd-bbbb-652d5c865df8
- 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/30aa6403-5efb-47cd-bbbb-652d5c865df8
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2018-01-20T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2022-12-12T23:10:59
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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