Fletcherview Tropical Rangeland Phenocam Images and Phenology Data Collection
<p>Fixed cameras installed at the Fletcherview Tropical Rangeland 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.</p>
<p>Fletcherview Tropical Rangeland SuperSite was established in 2021 at James Cook University’s Fletcherview Research Station, a fully operational outback cattle station located 50 km west of Townsville, Queensland. The site is used for cattle grazing and is characterised by tall open savanna. The vegetation is dominated by native grasses such as blackspear and kangaroo grasses, as well as introduced species like buffel grass, signal grass and leucaena. Fletcherview typically experiences a dry and wet season, with most rainfall occurring between January and April. </p>
<p>Other images collected at the site include photopoints, digital cover photography (DCP), and ancillary images of fauna and flora. </p>
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2022-01-23
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-02-25
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-15
- Edition
- 1.0
Publisher
Author
James Cook University - Cleverly, Jamie ()
14-88 McGregor Road, Smithfield, 4878, Queensland, Australia
Smithfield
Queensland
4878
Australia
Co-author
University of Southern Queensland - Owens, Jo ()
487-535 West Street, Toowoomba, Queensland, 4350, Australia
Toowoomba
Queensland
4350
Australia
- 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
- <p>The Fletcherview Tropical Rangeland SuperSite is managed by James Cook University. Infrastructure at the site was funded under the Queensland Government’s Research Infrastructure Co-Investment Fund (RICF) for co-investment to the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), a project of the Commonwealth’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). The flux tower on the Fletcherview Tropical Rangeland SuperSite is a member of OzFlux, the Australian and New Zealand flux research network.</p> <p>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.</p>
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
James Cook University - Cleverly, Jamie ()
14-88 McGregor Road, Smithfield, 4878, Queensland, Australia
14-88 McGregor Road
Smithfield
Queensland
4878
Australia
- Topic category
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- Environment
Extent
- Description
- The Fletcherview Tropical Rangeland SuperSite and flux station is located on JCU’s Fletcherview Cattle Station near Charters Towers in North Queensland.
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- 2022-01-23
- Title
- Fletcherview Tropical Rangeland SuperSite
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Fletcherview Tropical Rangeland SuperSite
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- TERN Ecosystem Processes
- phenocam images
- vegetation phenology
- vegetation greeness
- vegetation colour
- phenology transiton
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- 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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- Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.
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Distribution Information
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Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia
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- TERN EcoImages Portal
- OnLine resource
- TERN EcoImages REST API
- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
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>
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- Dataset
- 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
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4227/05/56134C1310F16
Method documentation
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- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
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- Language
- English
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- UTF8
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- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/df863ae4-9c5e-4818-8dfe-fb0317d1d52b
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-01-23T00:00:00.000000+00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-12-15T05:17:32.406205+00:00
Metadata standard
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- 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
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