Airborne Hyperspectral and LiDAR Data - Australian Field Sites
TERN worked together with Airborne Research Australia (ARA) to deliver airborne hyperspectral and lidar data for a number of selected homogenous 5 km x 5 km field sites across several locations in Australia (formally known as the AusCover Supersites). A Riegl Q560 Lidar, a SPECIM AisaEAGLE II hyperspectral scanner (VNIR) and a SPECIM AisaHAWK hyper-spectral scanner were mounted in underwing pods of ARA's ECO-Dimona research aircraft VH-EOS, each one together with its own navigation and altitude system. The spatial resolution of the Airborne hyperspectral data is 0.5m and Airborne LiDAR is 0.3m. Details on the data acquisition for each site is summarized <a href=" https://dap.tern.org.au/thredds/fileServer/landscapes/remote_sensing/airborne_validation/metadata/data_report/5_AcquisitionOfData.pdf ">here</a>.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2013-03-13
- Date (Publication)
- 2021-12-15
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-10
- Edition
- 1.0
Publisher
Author
Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation, Queensland Government
41 Boggo Road, Dutton Park, 4102, Queensland, Australia
Dutton Park
Queensland
4102
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- Between January 2011 and June 2013, TERN Landscapes collected field, airborne hyperspectral and airborne LiDAR data coincidently from several locations across Australia to be used for upscaling ground gathered observations, and to help calibrate satellite sensors passing overhead.
- 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 work was funded by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an Australian Government National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) project.
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation, Queensland Government - Data Enquiries, Earth Observation and Social Sciences (EOSS) ()
41 Boggo Road, Dutton Park, 4102, Queensland, Australia
41 Boggo Road
Dutton Park
Queensland
4102
Australia
- Topic category
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- Environment
Extent
- Description
- Australia
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2012-02-01 2013-07-01
- Title
- Broomhall, M., Johansen, K., Wu. D., 2018, Chapter 15: Quality Assurance Steps for TERN Landscape Assessment Hyper-Spectral Data in TERN Effective Field Calibration and Validation Practices
- Website
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Broomhall, M., Johansen, K., Wu. D., 2018, Chapter 15: Quality Assurance Steps for TERN Landscape Assessment Hyper-Spectral Data in TERN Effective Field Calibration and Validation Practices
Related documentation
- Title
- Reports and extensive site documentation
- Website
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Reports and extensive site documentation
Related documentation
- Title
- Quadros, N. and Keyseres, J., 2018, Chapter 16: Airborne LiDAR Acquisition and Validation in TERN Effective Field Calibration and Validation Practices
- Website
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Quadros, N. and Keyseres, J., 2018, Chapter 16: Airborne LiDAR Acquisition and Validation in TERN Effective Field Calibration and Validation Practices
Related documentation
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Instrument Vocabulary
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
- QUDT Units of Measure
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- calperum chowilla
- credo
- litchfield
- robson creek
- rushworth forest
- tumbarumba
- watts creek
- whroo
- zigzag creek
- Diamond Aircraft HK-36 Eco-Dimona VH-EOS
- 3D point cloud
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 /><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
- Rights owned by the Airborne Research Australia (ARA).
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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Distributor
Distributor
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia
- OnLine resource
- Airborne Hyperspectral Files
- OnLine resource
- Airborne LiDAR Files
- OnLine resource
- TERN Field Calibration/Validation
- OnLine resource
- JRSRP Field Data Portal
- OnLine resource
- File Naming Convention
- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Other
- The process used to test quality assurance of the airborne hyperspectral data and airborne lidar data are documented in Chapter 15 and 16 of the TERN Effective Field Calibration and Validation Practices handbook (see references).
Report
Result
- Statement
- See the individual flights for information on data quality.
Resource lineage
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Process step
- Description
- Documentation: Documents containing information on instrumentation, platforms, data acquisitions, quality audits, naming conventions and more are available at https://dap.tern.org.au/thredds/catalog/landscapes/remote_sensing/airborne_validation/metadata/data_report/catalog.html
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/4ff0b4c9-cfa0-4d09-9520-b5402adc583f
- 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/4ff0b4c9-cfa0-4d09-9520-b5402adc583f
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2013-03-13T00:00:00.000000+00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-12-10T10:33:37.344243+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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