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Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt Phenocam Images and Phenology Data Collection

Ver: 1.0
Status of Data: on going
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Description

Fixed cameras installed at the Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt SuperSite provide a time series of fine scale data as a long-term record of vegetation structure and condition. This dense time series of phenocam 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 data, ensuring delivery of higher quality results for broader scale environmental monitoring products.

Images are captured regularly during daylight hours. Images and data products for a region-of-interest (ROI) that delineates an area of specific vegetation type, are made available on a six monthly basis.

The Tumbarumba Flux site was established in 2000 by CSIRO and started measurements in 2001. The 1 hectare (ha) SuperSite plot was established in 2015 in a collaboration with TERN. The overstorey is dominated by Eucalyptus delegatensis (alpine ash) and Eucalyptus dalrympleana (mountain gum). For additional site information, see https://www.tern.org.au/tern-observatory/tern-ecosystem-processes/tumbarumba-wet-eucalypt-supersite/ .

Other images collected at the site include photopoints, digital cover photography (DCP), 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 Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt SuperSite was established in 2015 and is managed by CSIRO Land and Water and is supported by TERN.

Purpose
Time series of vegetation phenological observations are collected to understand ecosystems annual cycles. Phenological timeseries 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.

Lineage

For generating ROI chromatic indices the python library vegindex (0.7.2) in python is used. For calculating hazeness values the R hazer (1.1.1.) and jpeg (0.1) libraries are used.

Temporal coverage

From 3/13/2014

Dates

Creation date

3/13/2014

Publication date

11/9/2021

Revision date

5/7/2024

Citation information

How to cite this collection:

Stol, J., Kitchen, M. & Woodgate, W. (2021): Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt Phenocam Images and Phenology Data Collection. Version 1.0. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. (Dataset). https://portal.tern.org.au/metadata/TERN/4dd04ad7-c24b-4e5f-9cd1-4a4a433bb9fc

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Rights and Licensing

CC-BY

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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.
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.

Please advise any work or publications that use this data via the online form at https://www.tern.org.au/research-publications/#reporting

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GCMD Science
ANZSRC - FOR
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Topic Categories
User Defined
  • TERN Ecosystem Processes
  • phenocam images
  • phenology transiton
  • tumb
  • vegetation colour
  • vegetation greeness
  • vegetation phenology

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Publications

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Data Quality

Data QualityData Quality
  • Data Quality Assessment Scope:
    For each image, across a region-of-interest (ROI) delineating a specific vegetation type, we extract RGB (red, green, blue) colour channel information, with chromatic coordinates and means, quantiles and correlation among colour channels being calculated. Hazeness of the image as well as global environmental light are assessed.

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Contacts
  • Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
  • Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
  • QLD 4068
  • Australia
Spatial coverage
Spatial description
TERN's Tumbarumba Wet Eucalypt SuperSite is located in the Bago State Forest, near Batlow, New South Wales.