TERN Geospatial Catalogue
Alice Mulga Phenocam Images and Phenology Data Collection
<p>Fixed cameras installed at the Alice Mulga SuperSite provide a time series of fine scale data as a long-term record of vegetation structure and condition. This dense time series of phenocam images provides data for analysis of ecological responses to climate variability, and when consolidated across the entire terrestrial ecosystem research network, supports calibration and validation of satellite-derived remote sensing data, ensuring delivery of higher quality results for broader scale environmental monitoring products. </p>
<p>Images are captured half hourly during daylight hours. Images and data products, including timeseries of the Green Chromatic Coordinate (Gcc) for a region-of-interest (ROI) that delineates an area of specific vegetation type, are made available on an almost real-time basis.
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The Alice Mulga SuperSite was established in 2010 at Pine Hill Cattle Station with research plots located in low open woodland Mulga (<em>Acacia aneura</em>) and non-Acacia, hummock grassland, and river red gum forest. The core 1 ha plot is located in a dense Mulga woodland (cover 70–80%), while the Ti Tree East subsite is located in a mosaic of hummock grassland/Corymbia savanna with patches of Mulga/tussock grass. For additional site information, see https://www.tern.org.au/tern-observatory/tern-ecosystem-processes/alice-mulga-supersite/ .
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Other images collected at the site include photopoints, digital cover photography (DCP), panoramic landscape and ancillary images of fauna and flora.</p>
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2012-10-14
- Date (Publication)
- 2021-09-30
- Date (Revision)
- 2014-07-14
- Edition
- 1.0
Publisher
Author
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- Time series of vegetation phenological observations are collected to understand ecosystems annual cycles. Phenological timeseries can be used for ground-truthing remote sensing data products, for studies of climate change impacts on terrestrial ecosystems, and as a standard for earth system models.
- 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 Alice Mulga SuperSite was established in 2010 in partnership with the University of Technology Sydney. The Alice Mulga SuperSite infrastructure was transferred in 2021 to James Cook University Cairns. This work was jointly funded by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an Australian Government National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) project.
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
- Topic category
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- Environment
Extent
- Description
- Located at Pine Hill Cattle Station, north of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2012-10-14
- Title
- Alice Mulga SuperSite
- Website
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Alice Mulga SuperSite
Related documentation
- Title
- Cleverly, J., et al. (2016). Soil moisture controls on phenology and productivity in a semi-arid critical zone. Science of the Total Environment 568: 1227-1237
- Website
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Cleverly, J., et al. (2016). Soil moisture controls on phenology and productivity in a semi-arid critical zone. Science of the Total Environment 568: 1227-1237
Related documentation
- Title
- Ma, X., et al. (2013). Spatial patterns and temporal dynamics in savanna vegetation phenology across the North Australian Tropical Transect. Remote Sensing of Environment 139:97-115.
- Website
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Ma, X., et al. (2013). Spatial patterns and temporal dynamics in savanna vegetation phenology across the North Australian Tropical Transect. Remote Sensing of Environment 139:97-115.
Related documentation
- Title
- Moore, C. E., et al. (2016). Reviews and syntheses: Australian vegetation phenology: new insights from satellite remote sensing and digital repeat photography. Biogeosciences 13:5085-5102.
- Website
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Moore, C. E., et al. (2016). Reviews and syntheses: Australian vegetation phenology: new insights from satellite remote sensing and digital repeat photography. Biogeosciences 13:5085-5102.
Related documentation
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Daily
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Platform Vocabulary
- TERN Instrument Vocabulary
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- NTABRT0002
- TERN Ecosystem Processes
- phenocam images
- vegetation phenology
- Green Chromatic Coordinate
- vegetation greeness
- vegetation colour
- phenology transiton
- Core 1 ha
- tte
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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- png
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 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
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- TERN EcoImages Portal
- OnLine resource
- TERN EcoImages REST API
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Other
- For each image, across a region-of-interest (ROI) delineating a specific vegetation type, we extract RGB (red, green, blue) colour channel information, with chromatic coordinates and means, quantiles and correlation among colour channels being calculated. Hazeness of the image as well as global environmental light are assessed.
Resource lineage
- Statement
- <p><span data-testid="comment-base-item-53381">For generating ROI chromatic indices the python library <a href="https://pypi.org/project/vegindex/0.7.2/">vegindex (0.7.2)</a> in python is used. For calculating hazeness values the R <a href="https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/hazer_1.1.1.tar.gz">hazer (1.1.1.)</a> and <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/jpeg/jpeg_0.1-1.tar.gz">jpeg (0.1)</a> libraries are used.</span></p>
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Title
- 17.1.7 AusCover WingScapes RGB Digital Camera Set Up
- Website
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http://linked.data.gov.au/def/tern-cv/8eb4a318-7768-4300-bf01-716bd6cf70d8
Method documentation
- Title
- CCFC RGB/IR Phenocamera Set Up
- Website
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http://linked.data.gov.au/def/tern-cv/1eca43a4-0fba-4b69-88bd-a0ab76ebe5ca
Method documentation
- Title
- Karan, M. (2020). SuperSites Vegetation Monitoring Protocols v 1.21. TERN Australian SuperSite Network. Cairns, Australia. doi:10.4227/05/56134C1310F16
- Website
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4227/05/56134C1310F16
Method documentation
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/c3ebff5f-030a-48b7-ba1a-fee15a46f6b1
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- 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/c3ebff5f-030a-48b7-ba1a-fee15a46f6b1
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2012-10-14T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2023-03-10T00:00:00
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
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Spatial extent
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