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NSW Forest Monitoring and Improvement Program State-wide Historic Forest Canopy Loss and Recovery - 1998 to 2020

This dataset contains spatial layers describing Forest Loss and Recovery from 1998-2020 in NSW.


For this dataset product and the processing of metrics, aspects of canopy loss and disturbances in the forest estate were investigated. Measures of canopy loss and recovery are seen as one of the multiple indicators of forest health. This is related to agents or pressures that affect the capacity of native forests and commercial operations to maintain normal ecosystem functions and sustainably provide productive capacity. <br>


To attribute disturbances, as a driver of change, a Multiple Lines of Evidence (MLE) approach was used that leveraged available spatial datasets. This allowed for a project-wide disturbance and disturbance context layer to be generated. This information can be interpreted back against forest cover extent change outputs, in particular the differences between individual years, to identify the areas of change and the likely reasons why. Therefore, landscape trends in forest loss can be potentially assigned or at the very least investigated. <br>


The time taken, in terms of years, for areas to recover from losses in forest cover extent can has also been determined. This process identifies the time taken for a patch of forest to return to a 20% canopy cover threshold, and other characteristics such as the forest type and likely disturbance or loss event.<br>


Base cover extent grids used are from the NSW State-wide Historic Forest Cover Extent – 1995 to 2020 product. These have been processed through a series of land use and vegetation type exclusion masking and a through a fuzzy-logic based certainty analysis to reflect a forest cover extent coverage for NSW that is reflective of past and current coverage. <br>


Read more about the project on the Natural Resources Commission website:<br>

https://www.nrc.nsw.gov.au/fmip-baselines-ecosystem-health-projectfe1<br>


This dataset supersedes "NSW Forest Monitoring and Improvement Program RFA Historic Forest Loss and Recovery – 1998 to 2019".

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
1998-01-01
Date (Publication)
2022-12-13
Date (Revision)
2014-07-14
Edition
1.0

Identifier

Title
DataCite
Code
doi:10.25901/q0ty-gk37
Codespace
http://dx.doi.org

Publisher

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

Author

Natural Resources Commission - NSW Government
52 Martin Place, Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia
Sydney
NSW
2000
Australia
Website
https://www.tern.org.au/

Purpose
This dataset has been created for the NSW Natural Resources Commission to create a historic baseline and understand trends of forest drivers of change as loss and recovery in NSW.
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
The dataset is owned by NSW Natural Resources Commission. Spatial Vision established the method and initial application of creation of historic baselines.
Status
Completed

Point of contact

Natural Resources Commission - NSW Government
52 Martin Place, Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia
52 Martin Place
Sydney
NSW
2000
Australia

Point of contact

Natural Resources Commission - NSW Government - Bell, Jeffrey (Principal Advisor)
52 Martin Place, Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia
52 Martin Place
Sydney
NSW
2000
Australia
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Geoscientific information
  • Health
  • Environment

Extent

Description
NSW
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S
E
W


Temporal extent

Time period
1998-01-01 2020-01-01
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
GCMD Science Keywords
  • FORESTS
  • FOREST MANAGEMENT
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Forest health and pathology
  • Forest ecosystems
  • Photogrammetry and remote sensing
  • Spatial data and applications
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • forest loss
  • Unitless
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • 1 meter - < 30 meters
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • Annual
Keywords (Discipline)
  • Forest Condition
  • Forest Recovery
  • Forest Loss

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/
File name
88x31.png
File description
CCBy Logo from creativecommons.org
File type
png
Linkage
https://w3id.org/tern/static/cc-by/88x31.png

Title
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
Alternate title
CC-BY
Edition
4.0
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/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
Environment description
This dataset contains spatial layers in raster format (geotiff).

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia, 4068
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
Forest Canopy Loss and Recovery Data 1998-2020

Resource lineage

Statement
For methodology information, see the report attached under 'Data access' <br>
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:3308

Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 2D

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/67ecdcaa-7d94-4990-8c0b-1877f8d45c80

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097
Title
NSW Forest Monitoring and Improvement Program RFA Historic Forest Loss and Recovery – 1998 to 2019

Identifier

Code
d114cb2c-1779-40ee-aeb3-9afb8b54d908
Codespace
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/
Description
Parent Metadata Record

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/67ecdcaa-7d94-4990-8c0b-1877f8d45c80

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Date info (Creation)
2022-09-08T00:00:00
Date info (Revision)
2022-12-13T02:59:23

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

Identifier

Code
10.5281/zenodo.5652221
Website
https://github.com/ternaustralia/TERN-ISO19115/releases/tag/v1.0

 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W


Keywords

ANZSRC Fields of Research
Forest ecosystems Forest health and pathology Photogrammetry and remote sensing Spatial data and applications
GCMD Science Keywords
FOREST MANAGEMENT FORESTS

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