From Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
JSON RDF ISO19115-3 XML

Ground Cover Reference Sites Database of Western Australia

ARCHIVED

Created 21/01/2025

Updated 21/01/2025

JSON RDF ISO19115-3 XML

The Ground Cover Reference Sites Database of Western Australia has been collected by Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia 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.

Files and APIs

Tags

Additional Info

Field Value
Title Ground Cover Reference Sites Database of Western Australia
Language eng
Licence notspecified
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/75030429-d758-4115-a2e9-303d9e82f112
Contact Point
Environment Protection Authority (EPA) Victoria
esupport@tern.org.au
Reference Period 11/10/2010 - 25/06/2014
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[114.042266852007, -34.6107912704815], [131.99642403474, -34.6107912704815], [131.99642403474, -15.4671657567623], [114.042266852007, -15.4671657567623], [114.042266852007, -34.6107912704815]]]}
Data Portal data.gov.au

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on data.gov.au "Ground Cover Reference Sites Database of Western Australia". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/ground-cover-reference-sites-database-of-western-australia

Original dataset
Dataset copies

No duplicate datasets found.