Theme OverviewTERN AusCover provides national data sets that describe a range of structural properties of vegetation communities, including measures of cover, height, and biomass. |
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Seasonal Persistent Green Cover - Landsat, JRSRP algorithm
An estimate of persistent green cover per season.This is intended to estimate the portion of vegetation that does not completely senesce within a year, which primarily consists of woody vegetation (trees and shrubs).
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KEYWORDS:Landsat, persistent, JRSRP
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DATA LICENCE
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SPATIAL COVERAGE
& RESOLUTION:30 m resolution; Australia -
TEMPORAL COVERAGE & RESOLUTION:At least one image per standard calendar season; 1990 to 2013
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PRODUCTION STATUS:Updated quarterly
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Seasonal cover deciles - Landsat, JRSRP algorithm
Two fractional cover decile products for green cover and total cover. These products compare, per-pixel, the cover for a specific season of interest against the long term cover for that same season. This can be used to identify areas of low or high cover, relative to what is normal at that location at that time of year.
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KEYWORDS:Landsat, cover, ground cover, JRSRP
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DATA LICENCE
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SPATIAL COVERAGE
& RESOLUTION:30 m resolution; Australia -
TEMPORAL COVERAGE & RESOLUTION:At least one image per standard calendar season; 1986 to ongoing
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PRODUCTION STATUS:Updated quarterly
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Seasonal ground cover - Landsat, JRSRP algorithm
Estimates of ‘true’ ground cover for each season, restricted to areas of less than 60% woody vegetation, by combining information from the Persistent Green and Seasonal fractional cover products.
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KEYWORDS:Landsat, ground cover, cover, JRSRP
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DATA LICENCE
& ACCESS RIGHTS:CC-BY 3.0 -
SPATIAL COVERAGE
& RESOLUTION:30 m resolution; Australia -
TEMPORAL COVERAGE & RESOLUTION:At least one image per standard calendar season; 1990 to ongoing
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PRODUCTION STATUS:Experimental product, not fully validated
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Seasonal fractional cover - Landsat, JRSRP algorithm
Representative seasonal medians of fractional cover, with landcover fractions representing the proportions of green, non-green and bare cover. The benefits of compositing seasonal images are the creation of a regular time-series capturing seasonal variability, and the minimisation of missing data and contamination present in single date imagery.
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KEYWORDS:Landsat, cover, ground cover, JRSRP
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DATA LICENCE
& ACCESS RIGHTS:CC-BY 3.0 -
SPATIAL COVERAGE
& RESOLUTION:30 m resolution; Australia -
TEMPORAL COVERAGE & RESOLUTION:At least one image per standard calendar season; 1986 to ongoing
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PRODUCTION STATUS:Updated quarterly
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Persistent Green-Vegetation Fraction and Wooded Mask
A map product of woody-vegetation cover of Australia for the decade from 2000 to 2010, derived from field, airborne and satellite image data.
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KEYWORDS:Landsat, cover, ground cover, woody vegetation, JRSRP
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DATA LICENCE
& ACCESS RIGHTS:CC-BY 3.0 -
SPATIAL COVERAGE
& RESOLUTION:30 m resolution; Australia -
TEMPORAL COVERAGE & RESOLUTION:Single layer derived from data in the period 2000 to 2010.
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PRODUCTION STATUS:One-off, no update planned
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Fractional cover - Landsat, JRSRP algorithm
Vegetation fractional cover represents the exposed proportion of green, non-green, and bare cover within each pixel. Landsat-scale ground cover information is important for soil erosion and nutrient flux estimates into the stream network, as well as assessing the impact of human activities.
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KEYWORDS:Landsat, JRSRP, ground cover, cover
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DATA LICENCE
& ACCESS RIGHTS:CC-BY 3.0 -
SPATIAL COVERAGE
& RESOLUTION:30 m resolution; Australia -
TEMPORAL COVERAGE & RESOLUTION:At least one image per year captured during the local dry season; 2000 to 2011
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PRODUCTION STATUS:Deprecated. Transitioned to seasonal aggregates. FC scenes available via the AGDC
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