Robson Creek Rainforest Phenocam Images and Phenology Data Collection
<p>Fixed cameras installed at TERN Robson Creek Rainforest 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>The 25 hectare site lies on the Atherton Tablelands in the wet tropical rainforests of Australia at 680-740 m elevation. It is situated in Danbulla National Park within the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. The forest is classified as Regional Ecosystem (RE) 7.3.36a, complex mesophyll vine forest. The climate is seasonal with approximately 60% of rain falling between January and March and the landform is moderately inclined with a low relief. There are 208 species in the site, and average canopy height is 28 m, ranging from 23 to 44 m. All stems ≥ 10 cm diameter are measured, tagged and mapped. For additional site information, see https://www.tern.org.au/tern-observatory/tern-ecosystem-processes/robson-creek-rainforest-supersite/ . </p>
<p>Other images collected at the site include photopoints, digital cover photography (DCP) and ancillary images of fauna and flora.</p>
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2013-11-01
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-03-14
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-15
- Edition
- 1.0
Publisher
Author
James Cook University - Liddell, Michael (Associate Professor)
14-88 McGregor Road, Smithfield, 4878, Queensland, Australia
Smithfield
Queensland
4878
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>TERN Robson Creek Rainforest SuperSite is located Danbulla National Park within the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area administered by the Wet Tropics Management Authority, and Queensland Parks and Wildlife. James Cook University manages the site.</p> <p>This work was funded by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an Australian Government National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) project.</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 - Liddell, Michael (Associate Professor)
14-88 McGregor Road, Smithfield, 4878, Queensland, Australia
14-88 McGregor Road
Smithfield
Queensland
4878
Australia
- Topic category
-
- Environment
Extent
- Description
- Located on the Atherton Tablelands, in Danbulla National Park, within the Wet Tropics World Heritage area.
N
S
E
W
))
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2013-11-01
- Title
- Karan, M. (2020). SuperSites Vegetation Monitoring Protocols v 1.21. TERN Australian SuperSite Network. Cairns, Australia. doi:10.4227/05/56134C1310F16
- Website
-
Karan, M. (2020). SuperSites Vegetation Monitoring Protocols v 1.21. TERN Australian SuperSite Network. Cairns, Australia. doi:10.4227/05/56134C1310F16
Related documentation
- Title
- Bradford, M (2015). General Vegetation Description, Far North Queensland Rainforest SuperSite, Robson Creek, Core 1 ha, 2014. dataset. TERN Australian SuperSite Network.
- Website
-
Bradford, M (2015). General Vegetation Description, Far North Queensland Rainforest SuperSite, Robson Creek, Core 1 ha, 2014. dataset. TERN Australian SuperSite Network.
Related documentation
- Title
- Robson Creek Rainforest SuperSite
- Website
-
Robson Creek Rainforest SuperSite
Related documentation
- Title
- Richardson, A.D. (2019), Tracking seasonal rhythms of plants in diverse ecosystems with digital camera imagery. New Phytol, 222. doi:10.1111/nph.15591
- Website
-
Richardson, A.D. (2019), Tracking seasonal rhythms of plants in diverse ecosystems with digital camera imagery. New Phytol, 222. doi:10.1111/nph.15591
Related documentation
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Daily
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Platform Vocabulary
- TERN Instrument Vocabulary
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
- QUDT Units of Measure
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
-
- TERN Ecosystem Processes
- phenocam images
- vegetation phenology
- vegetation greeness
- vegetation colour
- phenology transiton
- fnqr_robson
- Core 1 ha
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
- CCBy Logo from creativecommons.org
- File type
- 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
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
-
Distributor
Distributor
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia
- OnLine resource
- 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>
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Title
- Karan, M. (2020). SuperSites Vegetation Monitoring Protocols v 1.21. TERN Australian SuperSite Network. Cairns, Australia. doi:10.4227/05/56134C1310F16
- Website
-
http://dx.doi.org/10.4227/05/56134C1310F16
Method documentation
Process step
- Description
- SuperSites Vegetation Monitoring Protocol: <ul> <li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/tern-cv/8eb4a318-7768-4300-bf01-716bd6cf70d8">17.1.7 AusCover WingScapes RGB Digital Camera Set Up</a></li> <li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/tern-cv/1eca43a4-0fba-4b69-88bd-a0ab76ebe5ca">CCFC RGB/IR Phenocamera Set Up</a></li> <li><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/tern-cv/87456862-f365-4005-8a30-267bb9b715e5">17.2 StarDot IP Digital Camera</a></li> </ul>
Process step
- Description
- Cameras: <table style="width: 761px;"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width: 199px;"><strong>Camera type</strong></td> <td style="width: 10px;"><strong>Camera name</strong></td> <td style="width: 151px;"><strong>Protocol</strong></td> <td style="width: 85px;"><strong>Field of view</strong></td> <td style="width: 114px;"><strong>Start date</strong></td> <td style="width: 253px;"><strong>End date</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 199px;">Campbell Scientific CCFC</td> <td style="width: 10px;">AU-Rob_overstorey-oblique-ccfc-1879</td> <td style="width: 151px;"><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/tern-cv/1eca43a4-0fba-4b69-88bd-a0ab76ebe5ca">CCFC RGB/IR Phenocamera Set Up</a></td> <td style="width: 85px;">01</td> <td style="width: 114px;">2020-09-04</td> <td style="width: 253px;">2021-11-05</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 199px;">Campbell Scientific CCFC</td> <td style="width: 10px;">AU-Rob_overstorey-oblique-ccfc-1879</td> <td style="width: 151px;"><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/tern-cv/1eca43a4-0fba-4b69-88bd-a0ab76ebe5ca">CCFC RGB/IR Phenocamera Set Up</a></td> <td style="width: 85px;">02</td> <td style="width: 114px;">2021-11-05</td> <td style="width: 253px;">Ongoing</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 199px;">Stardot</td> <td style="width: 10px;">stardot-EC0383</td> <td style="width: 151px;"><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/tern-cv/87456862-f365-4005-8a30-267bb9b715e5">17.2 StarDot IP Digital Camera</a></td> <td style="width: 85px;">01</td> <td style="width: 114px;">2014-09-03</td> <td style="width: 253px;">Ongoing</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 199px;">Wingscapes Timelapse Camera</td> <td style="width: 10px;">fnqr_robson_understorey_oblique_01</td> <td style="width: 151px;"><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/tern-cv/8eb4a318-7768-4300-bf01-716bd6cf70d8">17.1.7 AusCover WingScapes RGB Digital Camera Set Up</a></td> <td style="width: 85px;">01</td> <td style="width: 114px;">2013-11-06</td> <td style="width: 253px;">2014-03-31</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 199px;">Wingscapes Timelapse Camera</td> <td style="width: 10px;">fnqr_robson_understorey_oblique_01</td> <td style="width: 151px;"><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/tern-cv/8eb4a318-7768-4300-bf01-716bd6cf70d8">17.1.7 AusCover WingScapes RGB Digital Camera Set Up</a></td> <td style="width: 85px;">02</td> <td style="width: 114px;">2014-09-09</td> <td style="width: 253px;">2016-04-04</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 199px;">Wingscapes Timelapse Camera</td> <td style="width: 10px;">fnqr_robson_overstorey_nadir_01</td> <td style="width: 151px;"><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/tern-cv/8eb4a318-7768-4300-bf01-716bd6cf70d8">17.1.7 AusCover WingScapes RGB Digital Camera Set Up</a></td> <td style="width: 85px;">01</td> <td style="width: 114px;">2013-11-01</td> <td style="width: 253px;">2015-04-08</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 199px;">Wingscapes Timelapse Camera</td> <td style="width: 10px;">fnqr_robson_overstorey_oblique_02</td> <td style="width: 151px;"><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/tern-cv/8eb4a318-7768-4300-bf01-716bd6cf70d8">17.1.7 AusCover WingScapes RGB Digital Camera Set Up</a></td> <td style="width: 85px;">01</td> <td style="width: 114px;">2015-04-08</td> <td style="width: 253px;">2015-07-21</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 199px;">Wingscapes Timelapse Camera</td> <td style="width: 10px;">fnqr_robson_overstorey_oblique_02</td> <td style="width: 151px;"><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/tern-cv/8eb4a318-7768-4300-bf01-716bd6cf70d8">17.1.7 AusCover WingScapes RGB Digital Camera Set Up</a></td> <td style="width: 85px;">02</td> <td style="width: 114px;">2015-10-30</td> <td style="width: 253px;">2016-04-04</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 199px;">Wingscapes Timelapse Camera</td> <td style="width: 10px;">fnqr_robson_overstorey_oblique_01</td> <td style="width: 151px;"><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/tern-cv/8eb4a318-7768-4300-bf01-716bd6cf70d8">17.1.7 AusCover WingScapes RGB Digital Camera Set Up</a></td> <td style="width: 85px;">01</td> <td style="width: 114px;">2013-11-01</td> <td style="width: 253px;">2015-07-08</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 199px;">Wingscapes Timelapse Camera</td> <td style="width: 10px;">fnqr_robson_overstorey_nadir_02</td> <td style="width: 151px;"><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/tern-cv/8eb4a318-7768-4300-bf01-716bd6cf70d8">17.1.7 AusCover WingScapes RGB Digital Camera Set Up</a></td> <td style="width: 85px;">01</td> <td style="width: 114px;">2015-04-08</td> <td style="width: 253px;">2016-04-04</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 199px;">Wingscapes Timelapse Camera</td> <td style="width: 10px;">fnqr_robson_overstorey_oblique_01</td> <td style="width: 151px;"><a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/tern-cv/8eb4a318-7768-4300-bf01-716bd6cf70d8">17.1.7 AusCover WingScapes RGB Digital Camera Set Up</a></td> <td style="width: 85px;">01</td> <td style="width: 114px;">2013-11-01</td> <td style="width: 253px;">2015-07-08</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
-
urn:uuid/e3d15ea3-1bd4-4b8c-b78f-5fcf25d2200e
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
-
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/e3d15ea3-1bd4-4b8c-b78f-5fcf25d2200e
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2013-11-01T00:00:00.000000+00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-12-15T04:52:45.189340+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
Overviews
Spatial extent
N
S
E
W
Provided by
Associated resources
Not available