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Seasonal Fractional Cover Summary Statistics - Landsat, JRSRP Algorithm Version 3.0, Queensland Coverage

Ver: 1.0

Status of Data: completed

Update Frequency: notPlanned

Security Classification: unclassified

Dataset Published: 2025-07-24

Dataset Last Modified: 2026-08-18

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Metadata Created: 2025-06-30

Metadata Last Modified: 2026-08-19

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Joint Remote Sensing Research Program & Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation, Queensland Government (2025). Seasonal Fractional Cover Summary Statistics - Landsat, JRSRP Algorithm Version 3.0, Queensland Coverage. Version 1.0. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. https://portal.tern.org.au/metadata/ed66ec98-7a5b-4d4a-8435-f73eb397ae14

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The Seasonal Fractional Cover Summary Statistics datasets provide long-term statistical summaries derived from the seasonal fractional cover v3 product, calculated separately for each fraction. For each cover fraction, a separate raster image is generated for the full time series of available imagery. Each image includes the following statistical layers: 5th percentile (minimum), Mean, Median, 95th percentile (maximum), Standard deviation and Observation count.

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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 dataset was produced by the Joint Remote Sensing Research Program (https://www.jrsrp.org.au/) using data sourced from US Geological Survey.

Purpose

These products display the variation of the seasonal fractional cover fractions over long term temporal periods (e.g. 1990–2020). These products are based on the JRSRP Fractional Cover 3.0 algorithm.

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Spatial Description

Queensland

Temporal Coverage

From 1990-01-01 to 2020-12-31

Spatial Resolution

Distance of 30 Metres

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Data Quality Assessment Scope

The input imagery was processed to level L1T by the USGS. Geodetic accuracy of the product depends on the image quality and the accuracy, number, and distribution of the ground control points. The fractional cover model was compared to samples drawn from approximately 4000 field reference sites.

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Data Quality Assessment Outcome

The USGS aims to provide image-to-image registration with an accuracy of 12m. Refer to the L8 Data Users Handbook for more detail. The fractional cover model predicts the vegetation cover fractions with MAE/wMAPE/RMSE of:

bare - 6.9%/34.9%/14.5%
PV - 4.6%/37.9%/10.6%
NPV - 9.8%/25.2%/16.9%.

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Data are available as cloud optimised GeoTIFF (COG) files. COG files are easier and more efficient for users to access data corresponding to particular areas of interest without the need to download the data first.

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