This project was set up to obtain vegetation species and abundance information for utilisation in developing new remote sensing techniques for vegetation mapping (PhD Project). The Strzelecki (B. Sparrow) Survey is part of the Biological Survey of South Australia Program which is a series of systematic surveys conducted across the state between 1971 and the present with the broad aim of providing a baseline inventory of South Australia's flora and fauna biodiversity.

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.

This survey collected baseline vegetation and fauna survey data prior to Prominent Hill mine production commencement. Allowed ground truthing of vegetation mapping. Vegetation data was collected at vegetation photopoints. Fauna trap lines at same vegetation sites localities. Survey was conducted 2005-2006. Data entry not complete. The Prominent Hill (Oxiana) Survey by Ecological Horizons Survey is part of the Biological Survey of South Australia Program which is a series of systematic surveys conducted across the state between 1971 and the present with the broad aim of providing a baseline inventory of South Australia's flora and fauna biodiversity.

This survey was held in the Kanowana Block between 1990 and 1992. The Kanowana Block contains a vast network of channels, lakes, waterholes irrigated by floodwaters from the south west branch of the Cooper Creek and the northern overflow from Coongie Lakes. The survey was based on the current survey methodology for flora and vertebrate surveys which were adapted to suit the wetland system. Several objectives of the project were to adopt a site-based survey to assess, classify and map vegetation of the area, to create a baseline data for future monitoring and contributing to an understanding of the wetland system. The project was also a pilot study to test approaches and techniques for vegetation survey and mapping in other desert wetland systems of the Lake Eyre basin. Survey report: Gillen JS & GN Drewien A Vegetation Survey of the Kanowana Wetlands, Cooper Creek South Australia. ? Department of Envirorunent and Land Management May 1993 The Kanowana Block Survey is part of the Biological Survey of South Australia Program which is a series of systematic surveys conducted across the state between 1971 and the present with the broad aim of providing a baseline inventory of South Australia's flora and fauna biodiversity.

The Marqualpie Land System, in the Innamincka Regional Reserve, was surveyed between 1989 and 1992. This survey was established to produce a baseline of flora and fauna and to look at the habitats in the area. It was surveyed before the development of the area by the Petroleum Industry. The Marqualpie Survey is part of the Biological Survey of South Australia Program which is a series of systematic surveys conducted across the state between 1971 and the present with the broad aim of providing a baseline inventory of South Australia's flora and fauna biodiversity.

The Ground Cover Reference Sites Database of Western Australia has been collected by Department of Agriculture and Food, Western 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.

Survey was conducted by the Australian New Zealand Exploration Society (ANZES), in conjunction with DENR in 1990 and some follow up visits in 1991 and 1992 (by the South Australian Expedition Group- SEG, and DENR). Methods used approximated standard biological survey methods at that time. Objective was to carry out a site based biological survey of Witjira National Park and some surrounding land to follow on establishment of a series of photopoints in the Park and to provide field experience for a number of organised groups. Repeat Visits to the Mt Crispe Sites caried out as part of rare rodent Survey work have also been added under this project. The Witjira National Park Survey is part of the Biological Survey of South Australia Program which is a series of systematic surveys conducted across the state between 1971 and the present with the broad aim of providing a baseline inventory of South Australia's flora and fauna biodiversity.

A survey carried out between 1983 and 1992 to examine the possible effects of production gas wells on the flora and fauna in the Strzelecki Dunefields. The Strzelecki Dunefields Survey is part of the Biological Survey of South Australia Program which is a series of systematic surveys conducted across the state between 1971 and the present with the broad aim of providing a baseline inventory of South Australia's flora and fauna biodiversity.

Part of the ongoing Biological Survey of South Australia. To sample the range of vegetation communities and landform types occurring in the region (Outback). The survey conducted in 2008/2009 surveyed the variety of habitats present in the Marqualpie Land System, and the fauna within them. Marqualpie Land System. Jumbled sand dunes and sand plains. Jumbled dunes, sandplains, channels and swampy flats abutting tableland country on Cordillo Downs and Innamincka Regional Reserve. Red dunes with sandhill wattle, sandhill spider flower and rattlepods over dense spinifex; a variety of flats with lignum, canegrass, Queensland bluebush, neverfail, Mitchell grass and coolibah on the channels and deeper depressions; sandplains with mulga, dead finish and bloodwood over woolybutt, spinifex and annual grasses. The MARQUALPIE LAND SYSTEM Survey is part of the Biological Survey of South Australia Program which is a series of systematic surveys conducted across the state between 1971 and the present with the broad aim of providing a baseline inventory of South Australia's flora and fauna biodiversity.

The Lake Eyre South Survey is part of the Biological Survey of South Australia Program which is a series of systematic surveys conducted across the state between 1971 and the present with the broad aim of providing a baseline inventory of South Australia's flora and fauna biodiversity.