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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

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

Author

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Australian Government
18 Marcus Clarke Street, Canberra, 2601, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Canberra
Australian Capital Territory
2601
Australia

Collaborator

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Australian Government
18 Marcus Clarke Street, Canberra, 2601, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Canberra
Australian Capital Territory
2601
Australia

Point of contact

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Australian Government
18 Marcus Clarke Street, Canberra, 2601, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Canberra
Australian Capital Territory
2601
Australia
Keywords (Discipline)
  • 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
  • Environmental sciences
  • Ecology
ANZSRC Socio-economic Objective
  • Environmental management

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
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Alternate title
CC-BY
Edition
4.0
Website
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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

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

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/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

Identifier

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

 
 

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Keywords

ANZSRC Fields of Research
Ecology Environmental sciences
ANZSRC Socio-economic Objective
Environmental management

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