NSW Forest Monitoring and Improvement Program RFA Historic Forest Canopy Loss and Recovery – 1998 to 2019
This dataset contains spatial layers describing Forest Canopy Loss and Recovery from 1998-2019 in NSW Regional Forest Agreements (RFA) Areas along the eastern coast. <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>
For this dataset product and the processing of metrics, aspects of canopy loss and disturbances in the forest estate were investigated. Measures of canopy loss and recovery are seen as one of the multiple indicators of forest health. This is related to agents or pressures that affect the capacity of native forests and commercial operations to maintain normal ecosystem functions and sustainably provide productive capacity. <br>
To attribute disturbances, as a driver of change, a Multiple Lines of Evidence (MLE) approach was used that leveraged available spatial datasets. This allowed for a project-wide disturbance and disturbance context layer to be generated. This information can be interpreted back against forest cover extent change outputs, in particular the differences between individual years, to identify the areas of change and the likely reasons why. Therefore, landscape trends in forest loss can be potentially assigned or at the very least investigated. <br>
The time taken, in terms of years, for areas to recover from losses in forest canopy cover extent can has also been determined. This process identifies the time taken for a patch of forest to return to a 20% canopy cover threshold, and other characteristics such as the forest type and likely disturbance or loss event. <br>
Forest Canopy Loss and Recovery uses measures of canopy loss and disturbances which can be interpreted back against forest cover extent change outputs, in particular the differences between individual years, to identify the areas of change and the likely reasons why. Therefore, landscape trends in forest canopy loss can be potentially assigned or at the very least investigated. Time taken in years for areas to recover for losses has also been determined, as-well as other characteristics such as forest type and likely disturbance/loss event. <br>
Base cover extent grids used are from the NSW RFA Historic Forest Canopy Cover Extent – 1995 to 2019 product.
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 Loss and Recovery - 1998 to 2020'
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 1998-01-01
- 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 of forest drivers of change as loss and recovery, 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.
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1998-01-01 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 Condition
- Forest Recovery
- Forest Loss
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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- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
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- License
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- 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
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- 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 Loss and Recovery 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 vector (shapefile) and raster format (geotiff). <br> Source system - Forest Monitoring and Improvement Program (FMIP) Information Asset Repository <br>
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Title
- Forest Recovery and Loss 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/d114cb2c-1779-40ee-aeb3-9afb8b54d908
- 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/d114cb2c-1779-40ee-aeb3-9afb8b54d908
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