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Green Accumulation Index - NSW

The Landsat-derived fractional cover layer gives the amount of bare ground, green vegetation, and dead vegetation for each pixel on a specific date. The landscape of NSW undergoes a large variation in greenness throughout the seasonal and drought cycles. Information about the variation in greenness can be useful for a variety of mapping and planning tasks. Areas of green vegetation are important for native species habitat and human recreation activities. Green areas in the landscape are often related to the availability of near surface water or recent inundation, such as bogs, swamps and mires. These green areas are important for native plants and animals as locations of food and water in dry times.


The green fraction has been analysed for a sequence of images to show how long an area stays green following a greening event, such as grass growth in response to rainfall. The map of green accumulation for NSW was created from Landsat images from 1988 to 2012. Areas exhibiting the highest values are the areas of NSW that respond with high green cover for a long period after a greening event.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
1988-11-19
Date (Publication)
2021-09-22
Date (Revision)
2014-07-14
Edition
1.0

Identifier

Title
DataCite
Code
doi:10.25901/xhz0-m787
Codespace
http://dx.doi.org

Publisher

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

Author

Office of Environment and Heritage (2011-2019), New South Wales - a_not_applicable, a_not_applicable ()
320 Pitt St Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
Sydney
NSW
2000
Australia
Website
https://www.tern.org.au/

Purpose
The maps are intended for rural landscapes in areas with low woody vegetation cover and are suited to many applications including: - property planning - vegetation maps - local government planning - risk assessment - native vegetation mapping - habitat identification and mapping
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 Local Land Services and completed by the Joint Remote Sensing Research Program and the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage. Thank you to the United States Geological Survey provided access to Landsat data.
Status
Completed

Point of contact

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network - Librarian, Data ()
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd Indooroopilly QLD 4068 Australia
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Geoscientific information
  • Imagery base maps earth cover

Extent

Description
New South Wales
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S
E
W


Temporal extent

Time period
1988-01-01 2012-01-01

Vertical element

Minimum value
0.0
Maximum value
0.0
Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 3D
Title
NSW Office of Environment & Heritage (2015) Green Accumulation Fact Sheet
Website
NSW Office of Environment & Heritage (2015) Green Accumulation Fact Sheet

Related documentation

GCMD Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE REANALYSES/ASSIMILATION MODELS
  • BIOSPHERE
  • VEGETATION
  • VEGETATION COVER
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Crop and Pasture Biomass and Bioproducts
TERN Platform Vocabulary
  • LANDSAT-5
  • LANDSAT-7
TERN Instrument Vocabulary
  • TM
  • ETM+
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • green accumulation index
  • Unitless
  • green accumulation index
  • Unitless
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • 1 meter - < 30 meters
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • Weekly - < Monthly
Keywords (Discipline)
  • Vegetation Area Fraction

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
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File description
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File type
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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
These data can be freely downloaded and used subject to the CC BY licence. Attribution and citation is required. Please send citations of publications arising from work that use these data to tern@uq.ed.au .
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. 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.

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/8542d90e-6e20-4ad8-b30d-0a171b61d3f5/band_descriptions_and_filenaming_convention_UTM_gre_w53HoPK.txt

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia, 4068
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
Green Accumulation

OnLine resource
Landsat Path Row KML files

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:4326

Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 2D

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/8542d90e-6e20-4ad8-b30d-0a171b61d3f5

Title
TERN GeoNetwork UUID

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/8542d90e-6e20-4ad8-b30d-0a171b61d3f5

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Date info (Creation)
1988-11-19T00:00:00
Date info (Revision)
2020-11-19T00:00:00

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

Identifier

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

 
 

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Spatial extent

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S
E
W


Keywords

ANZSRC Fields of Research
Crop and Pasture Biomass and Bioproducts
GCMD Science Keywords
BIOSPHERE EARTH SCIENCE REANALYSES/ASSIMILATION MODELS VEGETATION VEGETATION COVER

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