TERN Ecosystem Surveillance monitoring program: Photopoint Panoramic Images

<p>Images are taken at sites across Australia by the TERN Ecosystem Surveillance team, using standardised AusPlots methodologies.<p /> <p> High-quality digital images are captured using a digital SLR camera at each rangeland vegetation plot. Three photopoints are established configured in an equilateral triangle (2.5m sides) with the centre marked with a star dropper at the centre of the plot, and the three photopoints recorded with GNSS/DGPS. At each photopoint a 360° panorama photographic sequence is taken, with up to 40 photographs with a minimum 50% overlap between consecutive photographs. The panoramic photopoint method may be most informative in open forests/woodlands and rangelands. <p /> <p>See <a href="http://linked.data.gov.au/def/ausplots-cv/03ba5e75-f322-4f80-a1e3-5a845e4dd807"> AusPlots Rangelands Photo-panoramas</a> for more information on this method.<p />