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Seasonal cover deciles - Landsat, JRSRP algorithm, 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This product has been superseded and will not be processed from early 2023.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/24070.


Two fractional cover decile products, green cover and total cover, are currently produced from the historical timeseries of seasonal fractional cover images. These products compare, at the per-pixel level, the level of cover for the specific season of interest against the long term cover for that same season. For each pixel, all cover values for the relevant seasons within a baseline period (1988 to 2013) are classified into deciles. The cover value for the pixel in the season of interest is then classified according to the decile in which it falls.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2013-11-25
Date (Publication)
2021-04-15
Date (Revision)
2014-07-14
Edition
1.0

Publisher

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

Author

Department of Environment and Science, Queensland Government
41 Boggo Road, Dutton Park, QLD, 4102, Australia
Dutton Park
QLD
4102
Australia

Rights holder

Joint Remote Sensing Research Program
Chamberlain Building (35), Campbell Road, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia
St Lucia
QLD
4072
Australia
Website
https://www.tern.org.au/

Purpose
These decile datasets are an excellent way of identifying areas of low or high cover, relative to what is typical for that location and season.
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
Superseded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
  • Environment

Extent

Description
Australia
N
S
E
W


Temporal extent

Time period
1987-12-01
GCMD Science Keywords
  • LAND USE/LAND COVER
  • VEGETATION COVER
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
  • ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • photosynthetic vegetation fraction
  • Unitless
  • vegetation area fraction
  • Unitless
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • 30 meters - < 100 meters
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • Seasonal

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
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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
It is not recommended that these data sets be used at scales more detailed than 1:100,000.

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097
OnLine resource
/attachment/7d3cd98f-32da-40d4-9a3f-d89eb76347f9/seasonal_cover_deciles_landsat_filenaming_convention.txt

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia, 4068
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
Seasonal Total Cover Deciles by HTTP

OnLine resource
Seasonal Green Cover Deciles by HTTP

OnLine resource
Vegmachine Timeseries Viewer

OnLine resource
Seasonal Total Cover Deciles Web Map Service

aus:cover_deciles_total

OnLine resource
Seasonal Green Cover Deciles Web Map Service

aus:cover_deciles_green

Data quality info

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Other
1) The input imagery was processed to level L1T by the USGS. Geodetic accuracy of the product depends on the image quality and the accuracy, number, and distribution of the ground control points. 2) The fractional cover model was compared to samples drawn from 1500 field reference sites.

Report

Result

Statement
1) The USGS aims to provide image-to-image registration with an accuracy of 12m. Refer to the L8 Data Users Handbook for more detail. 2) The fractional cover model achieved an overall model Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) of 11.6% against field reference sites.

Resource lineage

Statement
Summary of processing: Seasonal composite of fractional cover > baseline statistics > seasonal cover deciles. <br />Further details are provided in the Methods section.
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Process step

Description
Rankings: The seasonal fractional cover timeseries for the period Autumn (Mar-May) 1988 to Summer (Dec-Feb) 2012/2013 is used as a baseline. Every season is ranked against every available seasonal value within the baseline period, for the corresponding season, on a per-pixel basis. Rankings are expressed as deciles, so a cover value which falls within the bottom 10% of values in the baseline period is given as decile 1, and a cover value which falls in the top 10% is given as decile 10. Two versions of this are created – one which ranks total cover (green + non-green), and one which ranks only the green fraction. Because the seasonal composites are used, the data are representative of the season, and robust against outliers. The baseline period is sampled evenly across the whole period, so there is no bias towards the years with more imagery available.

Process step

Description
Example: For example, a total cover value for Spring 2013 is ranked against the total cover in all the Spring images in the baseline period. A green cover value in Spring 2013 is ranked against the green cover fractions in all the Spring images in the baseline period.

Process step

Description
Seasonal fractional cover process: Refer to the Methods section in Seasonal fractional cover - Landsat, JRSRP algorithm, Australia coverage https://portal.tern.org.au/22026

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:4326

Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 2D

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/7d3cd98f-32da-40d4-9a3f-d89eb76347f9

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

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/7d3cd98f-32da-40d4-9a3f-d89eb76347f9

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Date info (Creation)
2013-11-25T00:00:00
Date info (Revision)
2022-12-12T04:16:54

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

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S
E
W


Keywords

ANZSRC Fields of Research
ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT Environmental Monitoring
GCMD Science Keywords
LAND USE/LAND COVER VEGETATION COVER

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