Australian Mountain Research Facility, Aqueduct Site, Phenology and Phenocam Data Collection, 2021 ongoing
The record contains a dense time series of phenocam images collected from a fixed camera at the AMRF Aqueduct (PER) site near Perisher in Kosciuszko National Park to enable long‑term monitoring of vegetation phenology and ecosystem condition. These high‑frequency image series provide phenocam‑derived metrics that support analysis of ecological responses to climate variability. When integrated across the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), they also contribute to the calibration and validation of satellite remote‑sensing data, improving the quality and reliability of continental‑scale environmental monitoring products. Images are captured at half‑hourly intervals during daylight and are made available, together with derived data products such as time series of Green Chromatic Coordinate (GCC), Red Chromatic Coordinate (RCC) and Blue Chromatic Coordinates (BCC), along with statistical summaries for defined vegetation regions of interest (ROIs), on a near real‑time basis.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2025-09-03
- Date (Publication)
- 2025-10-09
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-10
- Edition
- 1
Publisher
Owner
Australian Mountain Research Facility
46 Sullivans Creek Road, The Australian National University, Acton, 2601, ACT, Australian
Acton
ACT
2601
Australian
Author
Australian Mountain Research Facility - Nicotra, Adrienne ()
46 Sullivans Creek Road, The Australian National University, Acton, 2601, ACT, Australian
Acton
ACT
2601
Australian
Co-author
Australian Mountain Research Facility - Battey, Nathan (AMRF Technical Officer)
46 Sullivans Creek Road, The Australian National University, Acton, 2601, ACT, Australian
Acton
ACT
2601
Australian
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- The Australian Mountain Research Facility (AMRF) operates a phenocam at the Aqueduct (PER) site to support long‑term monitoring of vegetation phenology. These observations are integrated within the Australian Mountain Observation Network (AMON), which combines phenocams with a suite of sensor arrays to provide transdisciplinary data on climate impacts on landscapes and ecosystems. Key measurements include carbon and water fluxes, productivity and flammability, supporting emerging systems models and adaptive management. Changes in vegetation structure, species composition and phenology are assessed at the community level on a regular basis. Time series of vegetation phenological observations are collected to understand ecosystems’ annual cycles.
- 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.
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
Australian Mountain Research Facility - Battey, Nathan (AMRF Technical Officer)
46 Sullivans Creek Road, The Australian National University, Acton, 2601, ACT, Australian
46 Sullivans Creek Road, The Australian National University
Acton
ACT
2601
Australian
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Imagery base maps earth cover
Extent
- Description
- Aqueduct (PER). Aqueduct is located near Perisher in Kosciuszko National Park, NSW, at ~1600 m elevation within subalpine grassland and Snow gum woodland. It is an AMON/DroughtNet site with an automatic weather station and a hydrological array of multi‑depth soil‑moisture probes, groundwater piezometers, and an eddy‑covariance flux tower.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2021-03-08
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Daily
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Platform Vocabulary
- TERN Instrument Vocabulary
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
- QUDT Units of Measure
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- AMRF
- AMON
- Phenology
- Phenocamera
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
- Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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Distributor
Distributor
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia, 4068
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Other
- The standard phenocam US library were used to extract chromatic coordinates for each image, across a region-of-interest (ROI) by delineating a specific vegetation type. The output had extracts on RGB (red, green, blue) colour channel information, with chromatic coordinates and means, quantiles and correlation among colour channels being calculated. Hazeness of the image as well as global environmental light are assessed.
Resource lineage
- Statement
- For generating ROI chromatic indices the python library vegindex (0.7.2) in python is used. For calculating hazeness values the R hazer (1.1.1.) and jpeg (0.1) libraries are used.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/38d4e217-fbf4-4246-9420-40bc03273b6a
- Title
- 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/38d4e217-fbf4-4246-9420-40bc03273b6a
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2025-09-03T06:04:24.254562+00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-12-10T10:14:57.434661+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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