TERN Surveillance monitoring program: Land surface

This dataset lists land surface characteristics observed in Rangeland sites across Australia by the TERN Ecosystem Surveillance team, using standardised AusPlots methodologies.

Land surface observations are collected at each site as part of the AusPlots <a href=" http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/74615bb8-9cc5-4a63-868b-3258108ffcb4">Plot description</a> method. At each site, observations on ground cover, lithology, erosion (state, extent, and human accelerated), surface drainage, microrelief, aspect and angle are recorded as part of the Ausplots <a href=" http://linked.data.gov.au/def/tern-cv/1ae719f6-93f2-494c-822d-2631b1d3e6c3">Ground cover</a> and <a href=" http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/74615bb8-9cc5-4a63-868b-3258108ffcb4">Plot description</a> methods.

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Date (Creation): 2010-10-30

Date (Publication): 2021-12-15

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

Co-author

TERN Surveillance Monitoring - Tokmakoff, Andrew ()

Davies Building, Paratoo Road, The University of Adelaide - Waite Campus, Waite, SA, 5064, Australia

Waite

5064

Australia

Author

TERN Surveillance Monitoring - Sparrow, Ben ()

Davies Building, Paratoo Road, The University of Adelaide - Waite Campus, Waite, SA, 5064, Australia

Waite

5064

Australia

Co-author

TERN Surveillance Monitoring - Leitch, Emrys ()

Davies Building, Paratoo Road, The University of Adelaide - Waite Campus, Waite, SA, 5064, Australia

Waite

5064

Australia

Co-author

TERN Surveillance Monitoring - Guerin, Greg ()

Davies Building, Paratoo Road, The University of Adelaide - Waite Campus, Waite, SA, 5064, Australia

Waite

5064

Australia

Co-author

TERN Surveillance Monitoring - O'Neill, Sally ()

Davies Building, Paratoo Road, The University of Adelaide - Waite Campus, Waite, SA, 5064, Australia

Waite

5064

Australia

Co-author

TERN Surveillance Monitoring - Macdonald, Christina ()

Davies Building, Paratoo Road, The University of Adelaide - Waite Campus, Waite, SA, 5064, Australia

Waite

5064

Australia

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TERN Surveillance Monitoring - Lowe, Andy ()

Davies Building, Paratoo Road, The University of Adelaide - Waite Campus, Waite, SA, 5064, Australia

Waite

5064

Australia

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TERN Surveillance Monitoring - Flitton, Rick ()

Davies Building, Paratoo Road, The University of Adelaide - Waite Campus, Waite, SA, 5064, Australia

Waite

5064

Australia

Co-author

TERN Surveillance Monitoring - Saleeba, Tom ()

Davies Building, Paratoo Road, The University of Adelaide - Waite Campus, Waite, SA, 5064, Australia

Waite

5064

Australia

Co-author

TERN Surveillance Monitoring - Coish, Caleb ()

Davies Building, Paratoo Road, The University of Adelaide - Waite Campus, Waite, SA, 5064, Australia

Waite

5064

Australia

Co-author

TERN Surveillance Monitoring

Davies Building, Paratoo Road, The University of Adelaide - Waite Campus, Waite, SA, 5064, Australia

Waite

5064

Australia

Website: https://www.tern.org.au/

Purpose: Soil samples provide information about bulk density and physical composition of the soil, necessary to quantify parameters such as carbon and water content. These measurements will give an initial characterisation of the variability in soil characteristics across Australian rangelands, alleviating the paucity of soil data information of this important ecosystem.

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: TERN is supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy, NCRIS.

Status: On going

Point of contact

TERN Surveillance Monitoring - Sparrow, Ben ()

Davies Building, Paratoo Road, The University of Adelaide - Waite Campus, Waite, SA, 5064, Australia

Davies Building, Paratoo Road, The University of Adelaide - Waite Campus

Waite

5064

Australia

Topic category

Environment

Extent

Description: Rangelands sites across Australia

Temporal extent

Time period: 2010-10-30

Title: TERN Ecosystem Surveillance

Website: TERN Ecosystem Surveillance
Related documentation

Title: White, A., Leitch, E., Sparrow, B., Caddy-Retalic, S., Lowe, A., Flitton, R. and Foulkes, J., 2012. Ausplots Rangelands Survey Protocols Manual, Version 1.2.9. [online] Tern.org.au.

Website: White, A., Leitch, E., Sparrow, B., Caddy-Retalic, S., Lowe, A., Flitton, R. and Foulkes, J., 2012. Ausplots Rangelands Survey Protocols Manual, Version 1.2.9. [online] Tern.org.au.
Related documentation

Maintenance and update frequency: Biannually

GCMD Science Keywords

ANZSRC Fields of Research

Terrestrial Ecology

TERN Parameter Vocabulary

GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges

1 meter - < 30 meters

GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges

Decadal

Keywords (Discipline)

TERN Ecosystem Surveillance

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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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Alternate title: CC-BY

Edition: 4.0

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Access constraints: License

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Attribution and citation is required in any publication that uses AusPlots data. We ask you to send citations and copies of publications arising from work that use these data to ben.sparrow@adelaide.edu.au, copy esupport@tern.org.au or advise via the online form at https://www.tern.org.au/research-publications/#reporting These data have been released in the spirit of open scientific collaboration. Data users are encouraged to consider consultation with ben.sparrow@adelaide.edu.au to minimize duplication of research.

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.

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Classification: Unclassified

Distribution Information

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia, 4068

Indooroopilly

QLD

4068

Australia

OnLine resource: TERN EcoPlots Portal https://ecoplots.tern.org.au

OnLine resource: TERN EcoPlots API

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Hierarchy level: Dataset

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Description: AusPlots Rangelands Protocols - Land surface: <ul> <li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/tern-cv/1ae719f6-93f2-494c-822d-2631b1d3e6c3">Groundn cover</a></li> <li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/74615bb8-9cc5-4a63-868b-3258108ffcb4">Plot description</a></li> </ul>

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Reference system identifier: EPSG/EPSG:4326

Reference system type: Geodetic Geographic 2D

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urn:uuid/bb91c732-873b-457f-9d81-aa671e3fda12

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/bb91c732-873b-457f-9d81-aa671e3fda12
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Date info (Creation): 2010-10-30T00:00:00

Date info (Revision): 2022-11-17T00:00:00

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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