Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) LiDAR Data - Calperum Mallee Site, 2022
This dataset contains LiDAR data collected at TERN’s Calperum Mallee SuperSite during a field trial of an Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS), undertaken to evaluate the use of drone-based LiDAR for the TERN Drone project across current and future TERN sites (AusPlots, SuperSites, and Cal/Val sites). Standardised TERN Ecosystem Surveillance Drone Data Collection and Data Processing protocols are used to collect drone imagery and to generate orthomosaics. The aim of drone surveys is to capture the vegetation structure. The standardised data collection and data processing protocols developed in 2022 are based on the DJI Matrice 300 (M300) RTK drone platform. Lidar sensor DJI Zenmuse L1 is used with DJI Matrice 300 (M300) RTK platform to capture RGB colourised 3D point clouds. The data is georeferenced using the onboard GNSS in M300 and the D-RTK 2 base station. DJI Terra software was used to generate 3D point clouds from the raw lidar data. The protocols include flight planning and data collection guidelines for a 100 x 100 m TERN plot, and the processing workflow used on DJI Terra. Mission-specific metadata for each plot is provided in the imagery/metadata folder (please refer to the imagery collection). The Drone Data Collection and Lidar Processing protocols can be found at <em> https://www.tern.org.au/field-survey-apps-and-protocols/ </em>.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2022-05-16
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-12-06
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-15
- Edition
- 1
Publisher
Author
TERN Landscapes
41 Boggo Road, Dutton Park, 4102, Queensland, Australia
Dutton Park
Queensland
4102
Australia
Author
TERN Ecosystem Surveillance
Waite Road, Waite, South Australia, 5064, Australia
Waite
South Australia
5064
Australia
Co-author
CSIRO Land and Water (2014-2022) - Stenson, Matt (Team Leader, Environmental Informatics)
147 Underwood Avenue, Floreat, 6014, Western Australia, Australia
Floreat
Western Australia
6014
Australia
Co-author
TERN Ecosystem Surveillance - Sparrow, Ben (Director - TERN Ausplots and Eco-informatics)
Waite Road, Waite, South Australia, 5064, Australia
Waite
South Australia
5064
Australia
Co-author
School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania - Lucieer, Arko (Associate Professor of Geography and Spatial Sciences)
Churchill Avenue, Hobart, Tasmania, 7005, Australia
Hobart
Tasmania
7005
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- The aim of the drone-based lidar surveys is to achieve consistent and robust data collection of vegetation structure to facilitate ecosystem monitoring. Vegetation structure is an important indicator of aboveground biomass and carbon storage. Drone lidar captures detailed information on the three-dimensional structure of vegetation and landscape. Critical characteristics that can be measured through this data include crown projection area, crown diameter, tree height. Lidar data can be used to generate precise digital elevation model under the forest canopy, track changes in erosion and deposition of soil, assess aboveground biomass, and fuel loads in terrestrial ecosystems.
- 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 project was funded by TERN Landscapes.
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania - Lucieer, Arko (Associate Professor of Geography and Spatial Sciences)
Churchill Avenue, Hobart, Tasmania, 7005, Australia
Churchill Avenue
Hobart
Tasmania
7005
Australia
Point of contact
TERN Ecosystem Surveillance - Sparrow, Ben (Director - TERN Ausplots and Eco-informatics)
Waite Road, Waite, South Australia, 5064, Australia
Waite Road
Waite
South Australia
5064
Australia
Point of contact
CSIRO Land and Water (2014-2022) - Stenson, Matt (Team Leader, Environmental Informatics)
147 Underwood Avenue, Floreat, 6014, Western Australia, Australia
147 Underwood Avenue
Floreat
Western Australia
6014
Australia
- Topic category
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- Environment
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- Description
- TERN’s Calperum Mallee SuperSite is in a mallee semi-arid ecosystem, fringing the River Murray floodplains on Calperum Station, near Renmark, South Australia. The area comprises undulating mallee woodlands and riverine vegetation alongside the river. All areas are in the process of recovering from extensive grazing. The Native Title for the area is held by the First Peoples of the River Murray and Mallee.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2022-05-16 2022-05-19
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- 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)
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- unoccupied aircraft systems
- UAS
- RPAS
- drone
- LiDAR
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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- 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
- 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
- Distribution format
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Distributor
Distributor
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia
- OnLine resource
- UAS Lidar Data: Point Cloud and Raw Data
- OnLine resource
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uas_surveillance_lidar
UAS LiDAR Flight Map Layers : WMS
- OnLine resource
- UAS LiDAR Data: WFS
- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
Resource lineage
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Title
- Drone Data Collection protocol
- Website
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https://www.tern.org.au/field-survey-apps-and-protocols/
Method documentation
- Title
- Drone Lidar Processing Protocol
- Website
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https://www.tern.org.au/field-survey-apps-and-protocols/
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/e7a93b30-860d-4757-9ef5-02a11f801c30
- 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/e7a93b30-860d-4757-9ef5-02a11f801c30
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-09-15T00:00:00.000000+00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-12-15T04:56:51.876800+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
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