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Tree Structural Characteristics - Site Measurements, Ancillary Data and Field Photography - Australian Field Sites

<p>Tree structural characteristics are collected at the centre of a site, usually in conjunction with the Statewide Landcover and Trees Study (SLATS) star transect field data. The basal wedge is first used to identify a sample of trees then direct measurements are taken of each tree, which constitute the tree structural characteristics.Tree structural measurements have been collected at several locations across Australia (including the formally known AusCover Supersites) to relate field-based measurements to satellite data products, such as Landsat-derived ground cover estimates.</p>


<p>Data can be downloaded from https://field.jrsrp.com/ by selecting the combination Field and Tree Structure.</p>

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2013-03-13
Date (Publication)
2021-12-05
Date (Revision)
2025-12-11
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
Field data on tree structural characteristics can be used for the calibration and validation of LiDAR derived products of tree height, canopy height profiles and allometrically derived Diameter Breast Height (DBH).
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
<p>The Joint Remote Sensing Research Project, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Curtin University, University of Adelaide and CSIRO have all contributed to the data collection.</p> <p>This work was funded by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an Australian Government National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) project.</p> <p>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.</p>
Status
On going

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

Extent

Description
Australia
N
S
E
W


Temporal extent

Time period
2011-01-01
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
GCMD Science Keywords
  • VEGETATION COVER
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Climate change impacts and adaptation
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • tree mortality
  • Unitless
  • stem diameter
  • Centimetre
  • diameter at breast height
  • Centimetre
  • bole height
  • Metre
  • canopy height
  • Metre
  • tree crown diameter major axis
  • Metre
  • tree crown diameter axis perpendicular to major crown axis
  • Metre
  • tree bark appearance
  • Unitless
QUDT Units of Measure
  • Unitless
  • Centimetre
  • Centimetre
  • Metre
  • Metre
  • Metre
  • Metre
  • Unitless
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • 30 meters - < 100 meters
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • irregular
Keywords (Discipline)
  • Tree structure

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
88x31.png
File description
CCBy Logo from creativecommons.org
File type
png
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}.
Other constraints
Copyright 2010 - 2020 JRSRP. Rights owned by the Joint Remote Sensing Research Program.
Other constraints
These data can be freely downloaded and used subject to the CC BY licence. Attribution and citation is required as described at http://www.auscover.org.au/citation. We ask that you send us citations and copies of publications arising from work that use these data.

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/4bfcc54e-605e-4857-8a19-1a7564a18d77/tree_structural_characteristics_shapefile_attribute_9ii1zn1.txt

Distribution Information

Distribution format

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
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 ancillary data files for specific details.

Resource lineage

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Process step

Description
Field protocols: <ul> <li><a href="https://ternaus.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TERNSup/pages/2309980172/Tree+Structural+Characteristics+Protocol">Tree structural characteristics protocol</a></li> <li><a href="https://ternaus.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TERNSup/pages/1960772343/Field+Data+Overview">TERN field data protocol</a></li> </ul>

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:4326

Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 2D

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/4bfcc54e-605e-4857-8a19-1a7564a18d77

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/4bfcc54e-605e-4857-8a19-1a7564a18d77

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Date info (Creation)
2013-03-13T00:00:00.000000+00:00
Date info (Revision)
2025-12-11T22:35:41.212499+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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S
E
W


Keywords

ANZSRC Fields of Research
Climate change impacts and adaptation
GCMD Science Keywords
VEGETATION COVER

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