NSW Forest Monitoring and Improvement Program RFA Historic Forest Canopy Cover Extent - 1995 to 2019
This dataset contains spatial layers describing Forest Canopy Extent from 1995-2019 in NSW Regional Forest Agreements (RFA) Areas along the eastern coast. Forest Canopy Extent is the likelihood that a certain area has forest at any given time. Forest Canopy is defined in accordance with the National State of the Forests Report which defines forests as containing as a minimum, a mature or potentially mature stand height exceeding 2 metres, stands dominated by trees usually having a single stem, where the mature or potentially mature stand component comprises 20% canopy coverage using a Crown Projective Cover (CPC) measure. <br>
These have been based off the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory (NGGI) National Carbon Accounting System (NCAS) National Forest and Sparse Woody Vegetation Data grids (ABARES, 2020). These base grids are Landsat in origin and have a resolution of 25m. <br>
To calculate forest canopy extent, these base grids have been processed through a series of land use and vegetation type exclusion masking and a through a fuzzy-logic based certainty analysis to reflect a forest cover extent coverage for NSW that is reflective of past and current coverage.<br>
Read more about the project on the Natural Resources Commission website:<br>
https://www.nrc.nsw.gov.au/fmip-baselines-ecosystem-health-projectfe 1<br>
This dataset is superseded by 'NSW Forest Monitoring and Improvement Program State-Wide Historic Forest Canopy Cover Extent - 1995 to 2020'
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 1995-01-01
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-01-03
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-04-30
- Edition
- 1.0
Identifier
Publisher
Author
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- This dataset been created for the NSW Natural Resources Commission to create a historic baseline and understand trends for forest cover extent, for these RFAs and the IFOA areas.
- 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 dataset is owned by NSW Natural Resources Commission. Spatial Vision established the method and initial application of creation of historic baselines.
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
Point of contact
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Geoscientific information
- Health
- Environment
Extent
- Description
- Coverage is confined to the 4 NSW Regional Forest Agreements (RFA) along the eastern seaboard, from Qld border to Vic border.
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1995-01-01 2019-01-01
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
- QUDT Units of Measure
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Forest Extent
- Forest Condition
- Forest Cover
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
- 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
Distributor
Distributor
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
- Forest Canopy Cover Extent Data
- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
Resource lineage
- Statement
- For methodology information, see the report attached under 'Data access'. <br> The dataset contains spatial layers in raster format (geotiff). <br> Source system - Forest Monitoring and Improvement Program (FMIP) Information Asset Repository <br>
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Title
- Forest Canopy Cover Extent Methodology
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:3308
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/bf7594db-6c6f-40dc-816d-860bf9885f30
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- 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/bf7594db-6c6f-40dc-816d-860bf9885f30
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-05-10T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2024-04-30T00:00:00
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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