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Sunphotometer Aerosol Optical Depth and Ozone - Australian Field Sites

The acquisition of sunphotometer measurements are critical to capture vital data on atmospheric properties during airborne hyperspectral imaging campaigns as well as for measurements coinciding with the overpass of satellite sensors. The atmospheric properties measured are used in atmospheric correction of the remotely sensed image data. This data is primarily for input into atmospheric correction systems. It may also prove of use in validation of aerosol products such as MOD04 and the reflectance change method developed as part of CRC-SI project 4.1 which may be integrated into the Auscover 19 band reflectance product processing. It can also be used to check methods that produce water vapour directly from the data (SODA). The MicroTops instruments referred to here capture solar radiance data in 5 wavelengths which are used to extract information on aerosol optical thickness and water vapour content. These two key parameters of interest are used as inputs for the atmospheric correction of remotely sensed image data.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2013-03-13
Date (Publication)
2021-11-12
Date (Revision)
2025-12-10
Edition
1.0

Publisher

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

Author

Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation, Queensland Government
41 Boggo Road, Dutton Park, 4102, Queensland, Australia
Dutton Park
Queensland
4102
Australia
Website
https://www.tern.org.au/

Purpose
Between 2011 and 2015, TERN Landscapes collected field, airborne hyperspectral and airborne LiDAR data coincidently from several locations across Australia (formally known as the AusCover Supersites) to be used for upscaling ground gathered observations, and to help calibrate satellite sensors passing overhead.
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
The following organisations contributed to the data collection: Joint Remote Sensing Research Project, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Curtin University, University of Adelaide and CSIRO. <br> This work was funded by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an Australian Government National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) project.
Status
Completed

Point of contact

Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation, Queensland Government - Data Enquiries, Earth Observation and Social Sciences (EOSS) ()
41 Boggo Road, Dutton Park, 4102, Queensland, Australia
41 Boggo Road
Dutton Park
Queensland
4102
Australia
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Extent

Description
Australia
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W


Temporal extent

Time period
2011-01-01 2015-08-19
Maintenance and update frequency
Irregular
GCMD Science Keywords
  • VEGETATION COVER
  • ATMOSPHERE
  • AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH/THICKNESS
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Climate change impacts and adaptation
TERN Instrument Vocabulary
  • SUN PHOTOMETERS
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • air pressure
  • Millibar
  • air temperature
  • Degree Celsius
  • altitude
  • Metre
  • solar zenith angle
  • Degree
  • atmosphere optical thickness due to ambient aerosol
  • Unitless
QUDT Units of Measure
  • Millibar
  • Degree Celsius
  • Metre
  • Degree
  • Unitless
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • < 1 meter
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • irregular
Keywords (Discipline)
  • Microtops Sunphotometer

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
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File description
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File type
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Linkage
https://w3id.org/tern/static/cc-by/88x31.png

Title
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
Alternate title
CC-BY
Edition
4.0
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/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
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
/attachment/0e70f55d-5bcd-4b85-a3c3-4ddf2a8db2f5/microtops_aod_shapefile_attributes.txt

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
/attachment/0e70f55d-5bcd-4b85-a3c3-4ddf2a8db2f5/microtops_ozone_shapefile_attributes.txt

Distribution Information

Distribution format

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
TERN Field Data

OnLine resource
MicroTops Ozone Instrument Files

OnLine resource
MicroTops AOD Instrument Files

OnLine resource
Data is also availalble at JRSRP Field Data Portal

OnLine resource
ro-crate-metadata.json

Data quality info

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Report

Result

Statement
Some site specific issues relating to data quality may exist. Please see the site details are available on the <a href="https://field.jrsrp.com/">JRSRP Field Data Portal </a>or through the .csv Instrument Files provided on the data page.

Resource lineage

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Process step

Description
MicroTops Sunphotometer Protocol: https://ternaus.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TERNSup/pages/2311553049/MicroTops+Sunphotometer+Protocol

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:4326

Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 2D

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/0e70f55d-5bcd-4b85-a3c3-4ddf2a8db2f5

Title
TERN GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/0e70f55d-5bcd-4b85-a3c3-4ddf2a8db2f5

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Date info (Creation)
2013-03-13T00:00:00.000000+00:00
Date info (Revision)
2025-12-10T10:21:46.652152+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

Code
10.5281/zenodo.5652221
Website
https://github.com/ternaustralia/TERN-ISO19115/releases/tag/v1.0

 
 

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Spatial extent

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Keywords

ANZSRC Fields of Research
Climate change impacts and adaptation
GCMD Science Keywords
AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH/THICKNESS ATMOSPHERE VEGETATION COVER

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