A single quad sensor camera installed at the ALTAR Desert Uplands 1 site provides a near 360° photo record of land management events and a long-term record of vegetation condition and composition.
This dense time series of images provides data for analysis of ecological responses to climate variability, and when consolidated across the entire terrestrial ecosystem research network, supports calibration and validation of satellite-derived remote sensing products, ensuring delivery of higher quality results for broader scale environmental monitoring products. Access to this dataset is available on request subject to agreement.
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. This research site is managed by the Queensland University of Technology.
Data was collected on Indigenous freehold land under the custodianship of YACHATDAC. The lands where this data was collected is on the traditional lands of the Iningai people. As both the landholder and traditional owner, TERN, ALTAR and QUT recognise the cultural rights and Indigenous data sovereignty of the Iningai people in relation to this data and research activities.
This work is jointly funded by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an Australian Government National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) project with co-investment by the Queensland Government Research Infrastructure Co-investment Fund (RICF).
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.
Purpose
Time series of vegetation phenological observations are collected to understand ecosystems annual cycles. Phenological time series can be used for ground-truthing remote sensing data products, for studies of climate change impacts on terrestrial ecosystems, and as a standard for Earth system models.
