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Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) LiDAR Data - Calperum Mallee Site, 2022

This dataset contains LiDAR data collected at TERN’s Calperum Mallee SuperSite during a field trial of an Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS), undertaken to evaluate the use of drone-based LiDAR for the TERN Drone project across current and future TERN sites (AusPlots, SuperSites, and Cal/Val sites). Standardised TERN Ecosystem Surveillance Drone Data Collection and Data Processing protocols are used to collect drone imagery and to generate orthomosaics. The aim of drone surveys is to capture the vegetation structure. The standardised data collection and data processing protocols developed in 2022 are based on the DJI Matrice 300 (M300) RTK drone platform. Lidar sensor DJI Zenmuse L1 is used with DJI Matrice 300 (M300) RTK platform to capture RGB colourised 3D point clouds. The data is georeferenced using the onboard GNSS in M300 and the D-RTK 2 base station. DJI Terra software was used to generate 3D point clouds from the raw lidar data. The protocols include flight planning and data collection guidelines for a 100 x 100 m TERN plot, and the processing workflow used on DJI Terra. Mission-specific metadata for each plot is provided in the imagery/metadata folder (please refer to the imagery collection). The Drone Data Collection and Lidar Processing protocols can be found at <em> https://www.tern.org.au/field-survey-apps-and-protocols/ </em>.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2022-05-16
Date (Publication)
2022-12-06
Date (Revision)
2025-12-11
Edition
1

Publisher

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

Author

TERN Landscapes
41 Boggo Road, Dutton Park, 4102, Queensland, Australia
Dutton Park
Queensland
4102
Australia

Author

TERN Ecosystem Surveillance
Waite Road, Waite, South Australia, 5064, Australia
Waite
South Australia
5064
Australia

Co-author

CSIRO Land and Water (2014-2022) - Stenson, Matt (Team Leader, Environmental Informatics)
147 Underwood Avenue, Floreat, Western Australia, 6014, Australia
Floreat
Western Australia
6014
Australia

Co-author

TERN Ecosystem Surveillance - Sparrow, Ben (Director - TERN Ausplots and Eco-informatics)
Waite Road, Waite, South Australia, 5064, Australia
Waite
South Australia
5064
Australia

Co-author

School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania - Lucieer, Arko (Associate Professor of Geography and Spatial Sciences)
Churchill Avenue, Hobart, Tasmania, 7005, Australia
Hobart
Tasmania
7005
Australia
Website
https://www.tern.org.au/

Purpose
The aim of the drone-based lidar surveys is to achieve consistent and robust data collection of vegetation structure to facilitate ecosystem monitoring. Vegetation structure is an important indicator of aboveground biomass and carbon storage. Drone lidar captures detailed information on the three-dimensional structure of vegetation and landscape. Critical characteristics that can be measured through this data include crown projection area, crown diameter, tree height. Lidar data can be used to generate precise digital elevation model under the forest canopy, track changes in erosion and deposition of soil, assess aboveground biomass, and fuel loads in terrestrial ecosystems.
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
This project was funded by TERN Landscapes.
Status
Completed

Point of contact

School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania - Lucieer, Arko (Associate Professor of Geography and Spatial Sciences)
Churchill Avenue, Hobart, Tasmania, 7005, Australia
Churchill Avenue
Hobart
Tasmania
7005
Australia

Point of contact

TERN Ecosystem Surveillance - Sparrow, Ben (Director - TERN Ausplots and Eco-informatics)
Waite Road, Waite, South Australia, 5064, Australia
Waite Road
Waite
South Australia
5064
Australia

Point of contact

CSIRO Land and Water (2014-2022) - Stenson, Matt (Team Leader, Environmental Informatics)
147 Underwood Avenue, Floreat, Western Australia, 6014, Australia
147 Underwood Avenue
Floreat
Western Australia
6014
Australia
Topic category
  • Environment

Extent

Description
TERN’s Calperum Mallee SuperSite is in a mallee semi-arid ecosystem, fringing the River Murray floodplains on Calperum Station, near Renmark, South Australia. The area comprises undulating mallee woodlands and riverine vegetation alongside the river. All areas are in the process of recovering from extensive grazing. The Native Title for the area is held by the First Peoples of the River Murray and Mallee.
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Temporal extent

Time period
2022-05-16 2022-05-19
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
GCMD Science Keywords
  • LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY
  • FOREST COMPOSITION/VEGETATION STRUCTURE
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Landscape ecology
TERN Platform Vocabulary
  • DJI Matrice 300 RTK
TERN Instrument Vocabulary
  • DJI Zenmuse L1
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • RGB values
  • Unitless
  • vegetation structure
  • Unitless
QUDT Units of Measure
  • Unitless
  • Unitless
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • Point Resolution
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • irregular
Keywords (Discipline)
  • unoccupied aircraft systems
  • UAS
  • RPAS
  • drone
  • LiDAR

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}.

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Distribution Information

Distribution format

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
UAS Lidar Data: Point Cloud and Raw Data

OnLine resource
uas_surveillance_lidar

UAS LiDAR Flight Map Layers : WMS

OnLine resource
UAS LiDAR Data: WFS

OnLine resource
ro-crate-metadata.json

Resource lineage

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Title
Drone Data Collection protocol
Website
https://www.tern.org.au/field-survey-apps-and-protocols/

Method documentation

Title
Drone Lidar Processing Protocol
Website
https://www.tern.org.au/field-survey-apps-and-protocols/

Method documentation

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:4326

Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 2D

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/e7a93b30-860d-4757-9ef5-02a11f801c30

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/e7a93b30-860d-4757-9ef5-02a11f801c30

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Date info (Creation)
2022-09-15T00:00:00.000000+00:00
Date info (Revision)
2025-12-11T22:33:04.464502+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
Landscape ecology
GCMD Science Keywords
FOREST COMPOSITION/VEGETATION STRUCTURE LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

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