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TERN Warra Tall Eucalypt SuperSite Panoramic Photopoint Image Collection 

Ver: 1.0
Status of Data: completed
Update Frequency: annually
Security Classification: unclassified
Record Last Modified: 2025-12-02
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Dataset Created: 2016-09-16
Dataset Published: 2021-09-19
Data can be accessed from the following links:
HTTPPoint-of-truth metadata URLHTTPTERN EcoImages PortalHTTPTERN EcoImages REST APIHTTPro-crate-metadata.json
How to cite this collection:
Wardlaw, T. & Phillips, A. (2021). TERN Warra Tall Eucalypt SuperSite Panoramic Photopoint Image Collection. Version 1.0. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. https://portal.tern.org.au/metadata/624e31a1-b227-4efd-80b5-665858cbb3c0 
High quality digital images are captured using a digital SLR camera at the plots (core 1 hectare vegetation plot) at the TERN Warra Tall Eucalypt SuperSite using the panoramic photopoint method. The panoramic photopoint method may be the most informative in open forests/woodlands and rangelands. Three photopoints are established configured in an equilateral triangle (2.5m sides) with the centre marked with a star dropper and the location recorded with DGPS. At each photopoint take photographic sequences in a 360° panorama, with up to 40 photographs with a minimum 50% overlap between consecutive photographs. For more information about the method, see White, el al. (2012) AusPlots Rangelands Survey Protocols Manual Version 1.2.9.
The Warra Tall Eucalypt SuperSite was established in 2012 and is located in a stand of tall, mixed-aged Eucalyptus obliqua forest (1.5, 77 and >250 years-old) with a rainforest / wet sclerophyll understorey and a dense man-fern (Dicksonia antarctica) ground-layer. The site experienced a fire in January 2019, which consumed the ground layer and killed a high proportion of the understorey trees but stimulated dense seedling regeneration. For additional site information, see https://www.tern.org.au/tern-observatory/tern-ecosystem-processes/warra-tall-eucalypt-supersite/.

Other images collected at the site include digital hemispherical photography, phenocam time-lapse images taken from fixed under and overstorey cameras, five-photopoint images, and ancillary images of fauna and flora. 
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. The research site was established in 1995 by Forestry Tasmania and joined the TERN SuperSite Network in 2013. 
Purpose
The images are to be used where possible to supply images for analysis that produces 3D reconstructions to monitor change over time and provide an estimate of basal area and biomass. 
Lineage
Data not provided. 
Method DocumentationData not provided.
Procedure Steps

1. 

SuperSites Vegetation Monitoring Protocol: Photo-panoramas 

Southern Tasmania
Temporal Coverage
From 2016-09-16 to 2016-09-16 
Spatial Resolution

Data not provided.

Vertical Extent

Data not provided.

ANZSRC - FOR
Environmental management
Forest biodiversity
GCMD Sciences
BIOSPHERE - CANOPY CHARACTERISTICS
BIOSPHERE - VEGETATION COVER
Horizontal Resolution
100 meters - < 250 meters
Instruments
Nikon D7000
Parameters
plant presence status
RGB values
vegetation community site context
Platforms
Warra Tall Eucalypt
Temporal Resolution
Annual
Topic
environment
User Defined
Core 1 ha
TERN Ecosystem Processes
wrra
Author
Wardlaw, Tim
Co-Author
Phillips, Alison
Contact Point
Wardlaw, Tim
Publisher
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Karan, M. (2020). SuperSites Vegetation Monitoring Protocols v 1.21. TERN Australian SuperSite Network. Cairns, Australia. doi:10.4227/05/56134C1310F16
Warra Tall Eucalypt SuperSite
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