TERN Geospatial Catalogue
Ground Cover Reference Sites Database of Western Australia
The Ground Cover Reference Sites Database of Western Australia has been collected by Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia 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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- Date (Publication)
- 2012-01-01
- Date (Revision)
- 2012-01-01
- Edition
- 9/2014
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- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Bauhinia sp.
- Lawrencia squamata
- Acacia tetragonophylla
- Eragrostis sp.
- Sclerolaena cuneata
- Podolepis sp.
- Heteropogon contortus
- Geology
- Enneapogon caerulescens
- Gossypium australe
- Grevillea suberea
- Disturbance
- Eriachne glauca
- Atriplex vesicaria
- Scaevola spinescens
- Corymbia greeniana
- Themeda evinca
- Maireana tomentosa
- Casuarina pauper
- Trianthema triquetra
- Eriachne obtusa
- Frankenia sp.
- Acacia stellaticeps
- Sclerolaena diacantha
- Senna artemisioides subsp. sturtii
- Halosarcia spp.
- Rhagodia eremaea
- Forbs sp.
- Lolium rigidum
- Ptilotus obovatus
- Eremophila linearis
- Lupinus sp.
- Solanum lasiophyllum
- Acacia sclerosperma
- Hakea sp.
- Lupinus angustifolius
- Acacia aneura
- Triodia sp.
- Calotropis procera
- Ptilotus aervoides
- Acacia curara
- Eucalyptus tectifica
- Eremophila alternifolia
- Sclerolaena sp.
- Acacia sp.
- Enteropogon acicularis
- Acacia craspedocarpa
- Calytrix sp.
- Eriachne helmsii
- Sclerolaena eriacantha
- Maireana pyramidata
- Sorghum plumosum
- Enneapogon sp.
- Atriplex nummularia
- Maireana sedifolia
- Dodonaea lobulata
- Eremophila sp.
- Malvastrum americanum
- Aristida inaequiglumis
- Senna artemisioides
- Maireana glomerifolia
- Acacia cyperophylla
- Arctotheca calendula
- Corymbia opaca
- Cymbopogon sp.
- Soil
- Maireana aff. tomentosa
- Acacia suberea
- Acacia tumida
- Flora
- Enneapogon polyphyllus
- Erosion
- Eremophila crenulata
- Atriplex codonocarpa
- Triodia scariosa
- Exocarpus aphyllus
- Zygophyllum sp.
- Atalaya hemiglauca
- Halosarcia sp.
- Trifolium subterraneum
- Sporobolus sp.
- Cyanostegia cyanocalyx
- Acacia xiphophylla
- Maireana trichoptera
- Triodia wiseana
- Triticum sp.
- Sehima nervosum
- Acacia pruinocarpa
- Austrodanthonia Caesipitoa
- Astrebla pectinata
- Grevillea lorea
- Acacia inaequilatera
- Triodia intermedia
- Brachycome sp.
- Eremophila sp. aff. wilcox x cuneifolia
- Calandrinia sp.
- Tripogon loliiformis
- Eucalyptus leucophloia
- Swainsonia sp.
- Acacia victoriae
- Brachyachne convergens
- Eriachne sp.
- Maireana erioclada
- Portulaca sp.
- Rumex sp.
- Carrichtera annua
- Atriplex semilunaris
- Acacia acuminata
- Land Cover
- Sclerolaena densiflora
- Pennisetum clandestinum
- Eriachne flaccida
- Hakea francisiana
- Cephalipterum sp.
- Whitechloa sp.
- Eremophila forrestii
- Lycium sp.
- Sclerolaena patenticuspis
- Erodium sp.
- Calythrix sp.
- Eragrostis xerophila
- Eucalyptus brevifolia
- Acacia papyrocarpa
- Arsitida contorta
- Ptilotus obtusifolia
- Lithology
- Maireana georgei
- Eucalyptus salmonophloia
- Cenchrus ciliaris
- Eremophila longifolia
- Ptilotus sp.
- Cratystylis subspinescens
- Aristida latiflora
- Aristida latifolia
- Maireana carnosa
- Carissa spinarum
- Eremophila scoparia
- Chrysopogon fallax
- Eragrostis eriopoda
- Carissa lanceolata
- Eucalyptus argillacea
- Acacia burkittii
- Atriplex sp.
- Alectryon oleifolius
- Acacia grasbyi
- Hypochaeris radicata
- Ptilotus schwartzii
- Senna phyllodinea
- Eremophila glabra
- Senna sp.
- Maireana brevifolia
- Chenopodioideae sp.
- Triodia basedowii
- Eriachne benthamii
- Grevillea sp.
- Fimbristylis sp.
- Austrostipa scabra
- Asphodelus fistulosus
- Indigofera sp.
- Ipomaea sp.
- Romulea rosea
- Rhagodia sp.
- Sorghum bicolor
- Alyxia buxifolia
- Aristida contorta
- Maireana triptera
- Vegetation Cover
- Eragrostis dielsii
- Melaleuca hamata
- Eucalyptus concinna
- Cenchrus sp.
- Melaleuca uncinata
- Eucalyptus sp.
- Corymbia sp.
- Land Use
- Solanum sp.
- Tecticornia doleiformis
- Vegetation Structure
- Hakea preissii
- Acacia farnesiana
- Parkinsonia aculeata
- Hakea arida
- Species Presence/Abundance
- Hakea lorea
- Acacia linophylla
- Sclerolaena obliquicuspis
- Dichanthium fecundum
- Scaevola sp.
- Olearia muelleri
- Triodia pungens
- Sida calyxhymenia
- Sclerolaena bicornis
- Eremophila fraseri
- Acacia kempeana
- Corymbia dampieri
- Hordeum leporinum
- Eucalyptus transcontinentalis
- Maireana sp.
- Lycium australe
- Xerochloa laniflora
- Eremophila delisseri
- Eragrostis setifolia
- Cynanchum sp.
- Acacia microneura
- Pittosporum angustifolium
- Cratystylis conocephala
- Landscape
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- ANZSRC Socio-economic Objective
Extent
- Description
- Survey of the Ground Cover Reference Sites Database of Western Australia area.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2010-10-11 2014-06-25
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_WA
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:3577
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/5d46950e-d0b6-5309-97fc-b1285c7674e5
- 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/5d46950e-d0b6-5309-97fc-b1285c7674e5
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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