TERN Geospatial Catalogue
Ground Cover Reference Sites Database of Victoria
The Ground Cover Reference Sites Database of Victoria has been collected by Department of Primary Industries, Victoria 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.
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Identification info
- Date (Publication)
- 2012-01-01
- Date (Revision)
- 2012-01-01
- Edition
- 9/2014
Publisher
Author
Collaborator
Point of contact
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Geology
- Disturbance
- Species Presence/Abundance
- Chenopodium pumilio
- Avena sativa
- Stipa sp.
- Vegetation Cover
- Land Use
- Vegetation Structure
- Danthonia sp.
- Medicago sativa
- Cryptogamae sp.
- Landscape
- Heliotropium sp.
- Eucalyptus leucoxylon
- Eucalyptus microcarpa
- Soil
- Flora
- Erosion
- Cucumis myriocarpus
- Triticum sp.
- Hordeum vulgare
- Acacia pycnantha
- Lolium sp.
- Cenchrus longispinus
- Medicago sp.
- Land Cover
- Brassica napus
- Acacia genistifolia
- Lithology
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- ANZSRC Socio-economic Objective
Extent
- Description
- Survey of the Ground Cover Reference Sites Database of Victoria area.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2011-03-28 2014-05-02
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/
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- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- These data can be freely downloaded via the TERN AEKOS and used subject to the null licence. Attribution and citation is required as described under Licence and Citation. We ask you to send citations of publications arising from work that use these data to esupport@tern.org.au and citation and copies of publications to land_management@agriculture.gov.au.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
- http://aekos.org.au/collection/gov.au/abares/gcrs_VIC
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:3577
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/744686d8-4586-5416-9a27-5e0f7d09fbf4
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID - Advanced Ecological Knowledge and Observation System
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/744686d8-4586-5416-9a27-5e0f7d09fbf4
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2012-06-30T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2017-05-01T00:00:00
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
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