The Ground Cover Reference Sites Database of South Australia has been collected by Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, South Australia as part of the Ground Cover Monitoring for Australia project. The data is being used to calibrate, validate and improve vegetation fractional cover products derived from remote sensing, in particular the satellite sensors MODIS and Landsat. The data is being used to improve the national fractional vegetation cover product of Guerschman et al. (2009) derived from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). This algorithm enables national, monthly identification of ground cover separating the photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic components by applying a linear unmixing methodology for spectral reflectance every 8 days as 16-day composites. For confidence in its ground cover estimates, the results were verified in the field at selected sites across Australia to allow more extensive calibration, validation and verification of accuracy of the remote sensing method. The Ground Cover Reference Sites Database represents the results of the field validation of remotely determined cover measurements by observing cover along point intersects with a total of 300 points (or 200 points with crops). It also has additional observations and measures such as landscape features, fire evidence, erosion evidence, biotic disturbance evidence, biomass estimates, basal area measurements, soil features and dominant vegetation species, as well as site photographs. The Ground Cover Reference Sites Database focuses on sites in extensive grazing systems of the rangelands and, to a lesser extent, in the mixed farming or intensive land use zone. Field validation aims at obtaining a wide spatial coverage of sites, with limited site revisits for temporal coverage.

Flora quadrat data collected for the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregional Assessment in the Gulargambone area. Replicate 2 records Fauna site data at each location.. The DRP_2001(Flora quadrat data collected for the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregional Assessment in the Gulargambone area. Replicate 2 records Fauna site data at each location.) Survey is part of the Vegetation Information System Survey Program of New South Wales which is a series of systematic vegetation surveys conducted across the state between 1970 and the present.

Vegetation survey of Mururrundi Pass NP, for DECC. The MURURRUNDI(Vegetation survey of Mururrundi Pass NP, for DECC) Survey is part of the Vegetation Information System Survey Program of New South Wales which is a series of systematic vegetation surveys conducted across the state between 1970 and the present.

Turill State Forest Plot Data. The JVMPTP(Turill State Forest Plot Data) Survey is part of the Vegetation Information System Survey Program of New South Wales which is a series of systematic vegetation surveys conducted across the state between 1970 and the present.

Pilliga Nature Reserve Vegetation Survey. The PIL(Pilliga Nature Reserve Vegetation Survey) Survey is part of the Vegetation Information System Survey Program of New South Wales which is a series of systematic vegetation surveys conducted across the state between 1970 and the present.

Survey Sites completed in the Little Darkey (McTaggart Additions) Yengo NP. The YENGOADDNS(Survey Sites completed in the Little Darkey (McTaggart Additions) Yengo NP) Survey is part of the Vegetation Information System Survey Program of New South Wales which is a series of systematic vegetation surveys conducted across the state between 1970 and the present.

Vegetation Survey of the Merriwa 1:100 000 map sheet.. The MERRIWA(Vegetation Survey of the Merriwa 1:100 000 map sheet.) Survey is part of the Vegetation Information System Survey Program of New South Wales which is a series of systematic vegetation surveys conducted across the state between 1970 and the present.

Manobalai NP and adjacent VCL (Bell Helicopter sites). The MANOBALAI(Manobalai NP and adjacent VCL (Bell Helicopter sites)) Survey is part of the Vegetation Information System Survey Program of New South Wales which is a series of systematic vegetation surveys conducted across the state between 1970 and the present.

Vegetation Survey of Avisford NR. The AVISFORD(Vegetation Survey of Avisford NR) Survey is part of the Vegetation Information System Survey Program of New South Wales which is a series of systematic vegetation surveys conducted across the state between 1970 and the present.

The desert ecology plot network, located in the Simpson Desert in central Australia, aims to track long-term shifts in biodiversity and ecological processes in relation to key drivers, both intrinsic to the resource pulse dynamics and due to human disturbance. These drivers include unpredictable rainfall and droughts, fire, feral predators and grazing.