AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Ground Cover Reference Sites Database of Queensland

The Ground Cover Reference Sites Database of Queensland has been collected by Department of Environment and Science, Queensland as part of the Ground Cover Monitoring for Australia project. The data is being used to calibrate, validate and improve vegetation fractional cover products derived from remote sensing, in particular the satellite sensors MODIS and Landsat. The data is being used to improve the national fractional vegetation cover product of Guerschman et al. (2009) derived from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). This algorithm enables national, monthly identification of ground cover separating the photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic components by applying a linear unmixing methodology for spectral reflectance every 8 days as 16-day composites. For confidence in its ground cover estimates, the results were verified in the field at selected sites across Australia to allow more extensive calibration, validation and verification of accuracy of the remote sensing method. The Ground Cover Reference Sites Database represents the results of the field validation of remotely determined cover measurements by observing cover along point intersects with a total of 300 points (or 200 points with crops). It also has additional observations and measures such as landscape features, fire evidence, erosion evidence, biotic disturbance evidence, biomass estimates, basal area measurements, soil features and dominant vegetation species, as well as site photographs. The Ground Cover Reference Sites Database focuses on sites in extensive grazing systems of the rangelands and, to a lesser extent, in the mixed farming or intensive land use zone. Field validation aims at obtaining a wide spatial coverage of sites, with limited site revisits for temporal coverage.

Tags: Acacia farnesiana, Acacia sp., Aristida sp., Astrebla squarrosa, Atalaya hemiglauca, Bothriochloa ewartiana, Bothriochloa pertusa, Bothriochloa sp., Carissa ovata, Cassia rotundifolia, Chloris gayana, Chloris virgata, Corymbia clarksoniana, Corymbia dallachiana, Corymbia setosa, Corymbia tessellaris, Cyperus sp., Desmodium sp., Disturbance, Eriochloa sp., Erosion, Eucalyptus brownii, Eucalyptus crebra, Eucalyptus drepanophylla, Eucalyptus sp., Euclayptus melanophloia, Flora, Geology, Heteropogon contortus, Land Cover, Land Use, Landscape, Lithology, Marrubium vulgare, Maytenus cunninghamii, Melaleuca sp., Melinis repens, Mitchell grass sp., Neptunia amplexicaulis, Petalostigma pubescens, Poa sp., Sedge sp., Sida sp., Soil, Species Presence/Abundance, Stylosanthes hamata, Themeda triandra, Vegetation Cover, Vegetation Structure, Wincassia sp.
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Office of Environment and Heritage, New South Wales - LESRYK Vegetation Survey

Veg Surveys completed for Wyong Council  in the Warnervale area by Lesryk.. The LESRYK(Veg Surveys completed for Wyong Council  in the Warnervale area by Lesryk.) Survey is part of the Vegetation Information System Survey Program of New South Wales which is a series of systematic vegetation surveys conducted across the state between 1970 and the present.

Tags: Acacia longifolia (Andrews) Willd., Ageratum conyzoides subsp. conyzoides, Amaranthus spp., Angophora costata (Gaertn.) Britten, Angophora floribunda (Sm.) Sweet, Brachyscome angustifolia A.Cunn. ex DC., Briza minor L., Caesia parviflora R.Br. var. parviflora, Calochilus robertsonii Benth., Cassytha glabella R.Br. f. glabella, Centella asiatica (L.) Urb., Cheilanthes sieberi Kunze subsp. sieberi, Coldenia procumbens, Corchorus sericeus subsp. sericeus, Corymbia maculata (Hook.) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson, Cryptocarya triplinervis var. pubens, Cupaniopsis newmanii, Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers., Cyperus congestus Vahl, Cyperus polystachyos, Daviesia ulicifolia Andrews, Dichondra repens, Entolasia stricta (R.Br.) Hughes, Epacris pulchella Cav., Eucalyptus capitellata Sm., Eucalyptus fibrosa F.Muell., Eucalyptus major, Eucalyptus raveretiana, Eucalyptus tereticornis Sm., Euchiton sp., Fimbristylis furva, Flora, Gahnia aspera (R.Br.) Spreng., Gonocarpus teucrioides DC., Goodenia dimorpha Maiden & Betche, Goodenia heterophylla Sm., Haemodorum corymbosum Vahl, Hypolepis sp., Hypoxis hygrometrica Labill., Juncus continuus L.A.S.Johnson, Lambertia formosa Sm., Leptospermum polygalifolium Salisb., Lomandra glauca (R.Br.) Ewart, Lomandra longifolia Labill., Lotus subbiflorus Pers., Melaleuca nodosa (Sol. ex Gaertn.) Sm., Melaleuca thymifolia Sm., Microlaena stipoides (Labill.) R.Br., Microtis spp., Ocimum tenuiflorum, Opercularia diphylla Gaertn., Paspalum dilatatum Poir., Patersonia longifolia R.Br., Peripleura hispidula var. setosa, Phyllanthus hirtellus (F.Muell.) Mull.Arg., Phyllota phylicoides (Sieber ex DC.) Benth., Plantae sp., Plantago lanceolata L., Poa sieberiana Vickery, Podolobium scandens (Sm.) Benth., Pseudognaphalium luteoalbum (L.) Hilliard & B.L.Burtt, Pteridium esculentum (G.Forst.) Cockayne, Pultenaea bracteamajor, Rhaphidophora petrieana, Rytidosperma bipartitum Kunth, Schizachyrium crinizonatum, Schoenus apogon Roem. & Schult., Scleria brownii, Senecio madagascariensis Poir., Senna occidentalis, Solanum elaeagnifolium, Species Presence/Abundance, Stenotaphrum secundatum (Walter) Kuntze, Thelionema umbellatum (R.Br.) R.J.F.Hend., Thelymitra spp., Themeda australis (R.Br.) Stapf, Thysanotus juncifolius (Salisb.) J.H.Willis & Court, Trichosanthes pentaphylla, Triumfetta micracantha, Triumfetta sp., Utricularia lateriflora, Vegetation Structure, Viola hederacea, Xanthorrhoea spp.
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Three Parks Savanna Fire-effects Plot Network (Fauna): Terrestrial Vertebrate Monitoring, Nitmiluk National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, 2005–2011

A total of 220 permanent monitoring plots (40 m x 20 m) were established across three parks (Kakadu, Litchfield and Nitmiluk) in 1994-1995 to monitor biotic change. Of these, 46 plots are located in Nitmuluk. These sample a variety of landform and vegetation type/habitat conditions. A substantial proportion of plots were positioned deliberately at sites likely to reveal environmental dynamics, especially at ecotones and in patches of fire-sensitive vegetation. For example stands of Callitris, sandstone heaths. As well, many plots are located at, or in the near vicinity of, intensively managed sites such as camp-grounds and other tourist destinations. A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Three Park Savanna Fire-effects Plot Network’s full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/three-parks-savanna

Tags: Birds, Fire, Fire effects, Herpetofauna, Litchfield, Mammals, Parks, Savanna, Terrestrial vertebrate sampling
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Jervis Bay Booderee National Park Plot Network: Herpetofaunal Search Data (Summer), Booderee National Park, Jervis Bay Territory, 2014

This herpetofaunal search data package comprises herpetofaunal data recorded along permanent 100 m transects along which three artificial substrates have been incorporated.    At the 20 m and 80 m points along each transect two sheets of corrugated iron, four roof tiles and four half-length railway sleepers, are situated. Searches for reptiles and frogs are conducted bi-annually, once in August and again in December of each year.
The Jervis Bay Plot Network was established in 2002 in Booderee National Park in the Jervis Bay Territory, South-eastern Australia.  The study location is a floristically diverse area in which fire history has been well-documented over several decades.
The plot network’s objectives involve quantifying the inter-relationships between natural disturbance and/or management intervention (including weed and feral animal control and prescribed burning) and the reciprocal changes in vegetation condition and biodiversity response.
The Jervis Bay Plot Network study forms part of the collection of data packages by this plot network.  A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Jervis Bay Plot Network’s full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/jervis-bay-booderee-national-park.

Tags: Herpetofauna
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Jervis Bay Booderee National Park Plot Network: Bird Count Survey Data, Booderee National Park, Jervis Bay Territory, 2003-2011

This bird count data package comprises repeated time-controlled point interval counts conducted annually along a permanent 100 metre-long transect.  The abundance of species observed or heard is recorded, and counts are not undertaken in poor weather (rain, fog or high wind).  Two five-minute counts are conducted at each site, one at the 20 m mark and the other at 80 m mark of the transect. All birds seen or heard are recorded and assigned to different distance classes.  Each site is surveyed on a different day by a different observer to reduce day effects on detection and reduce problems with observer differences.  Surveys are usually completed around late September each year.  Bird count surveys commenced in 2003 and have been conducted since on an annual basis. 
The Jervis Bay Plot Network was established in 2002 in Booderee National Park in the Jervis Bay Territory, south-eastern Australia.  The study location is a floristically diverse area in which fire history has been well-documented over several decades.
The plot network’s objectives involve quantifying the inter-relationships between natural disturbance and/or management intervention (including weed and feral animal control and prescribed burning) and the reciprocal changes in vegetation condition and biodiversity response.
This particular study forms part of the collection of data packages from the Jervis Bay Plot Network.  A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Jervis Bay Plot Network’s full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/jervis-bay-booderee-national-park.

Tags: Birds, Booderee National Park
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
McArthur Forest Fire Danger Index: NARCliM dataset: ~50km resolution, 1950-1969 period, NNRP and R3 ensemble member

NSW Office of Environment and Heritage Macarthur Forest Fire Danger index.  Modelled fire frequency projections at ~50km resolution for 1950-1969 period using NNRP and R3 ensemble member using the WRF 3.3 model.  This product will provide policy makers, land managers and researchers access to accurate and temporally fine scaled information with which to make hazard reduction and management strategies.

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Mean monthly outgoing surface longwave radiation modelled using the 1&quot; DEM-S - 1&quot; tiled data

Mean monthly solar radiation was modelled across Australia using topography from the 1 arcsecond resolution SRTM-derived DEM-S and climatic and land surface data. The SRAD model (Wilson and Gallant, 2000) was used to derive:
•   Incoming short-wave radiation on a sloping surface
•   Short-wave radiation ratio (shortwave on sloping surface / shortwave on horizontal surface)
•   Incoming long-wave radiation
•   Outgoing long-wave radiation
•   Net long-wave radiation
•   Net radiation
•   Sky view factor
All radiation values are in MJ/m2/day except for short-wave radiation ratio which has no units. The sky view factor is the fraction of the sky visible from a grid cell relative to a horizontal plane.
The radiation values are determined for the middle day of each month (14th or 15th) using long-term average atmospheric conditions (such as cloudiness and atmospheric transmittance) and surface conditions (albedo and vegetation cover). They include the effect of terrain slope, aspect and shadowing (for sun positions at 5 minute intervals from sunrise to sunset), direct and diffuse radiation and sky view.
The data in this collection are available at 1 arcsecond resolution  as 1x1 degree tiles. 813 tiles make up the extent of Australia.
The 1 arcsecond mosaic data can be found here: https://data.csiro.au/dap/landingpage?pid=csiro:9634 .
The 3 arcsecond resolution versions of these radiation surfaces have been produced from the 1 arcsecond resolution surfaces, by aggregating the cells in a 3x3 window and taking the mean value.
The 3 arcsecond mosaic data can be found here: https://data.csiro.au/dap/landingpage?pid=csiro:18336

Tags: Australia, ECOLOGY Landscape, LAND Topography Models, Land Surface, Monthly outgoing longwave radiation, TERN_Soils
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Desert Uplands Plot Network: Bird Count Data and Notes for Plot TIMA08, Northern Queensland, Australia, 2013

The Desert Uplands Plot Network Bird Count Data contains bird fauna data for 1 of 50 permanent 1 hectare plots in Northern Queensland, Australia. This data publication refers specifically to observations made at Plot TIMA08. 
The CSIRO permanent plots are situated in Tropical Ironbark Woodlands, and extend across four leasehold cattle properties that lie within an area approximately 50km by 50km. The plots represent three vegetation management strategies, namely: 1) clearing (where all trees and shrubs are removed); 2) thinning (where ground and midstorey vegetation is removed); and 3) unmodiﬁed native woodlands where signiﬁcant thinning or clearing has not occurred. Within each 1 ha site, eight five-minute diurnal bird counts are conducted over a four day period. Two counts are completed per day at each site: one count in the morning within three hours of sunrise and the other a minimum of three hours after this period and before sunset.
This is part of a much larger dataset that spans from 2004 to 2013. Note that previous studies were undertaken at 60 permanent 1 hectare plots and that this data is accessible as a composite data package:
Metcalfe, D; Vanderduys, E (2014): Desert Uplands Plot Network: Bird Count Data and Notes, Northern Queensland, Australia, 2013. Long Term Ecological Research Network. http://www.ltern.org.au/knb/metacat/ltern2.145.23/html
The Desert Uplands research plots commenced in 2004, and have been revisited in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2013.   A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Desert Uplands Plot Network’s full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/desert-uplands

Tags: Birds, Grazing domestic livestock
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Dukes Highway TSA, Biological Survey of South Australia - Roadside Vegetation Survey, Biological Database of South Australia

The project systematically surveys the extent and condition of remnant native vegetation on railway corridors / roadsides . A standard drive-by survey methodology is used to record dominant species (overstorey, understorey, emergent, threatened and alien species), structural type, density/distribution and understorey vegetation type in roadside vegetation. Mapping outputs are used to inform roadside vegetation management by Local and State Governments.

Tags: Acacia pycnantha, Acrotriche fasciculiflora (Regel) Benth., Asparagus asparagoides, Austrostipa sp., Avena barbata, Bergia perennis subsp. exigua, Compositae sp., Cymbopogon ambiguus (Hack.) A.Camus, Danthonia sp., Disturbance, Ehrharta calycina, Eucalyptus sp., Flora, Gratiola pedunculata R.Br., Hypoxis hygrometrica, Iris sp., Lepidosperma gladiatum Labill., Marrubium vulgare, Oenothera stricta subsp. stricta, Paraserianthes lophantha, Piptatherum miliaceum, Pittosporum angustifolium, Rumex sp., Salvia verbenaca var. verbenaca, Scabiosa atropurpurea, Sedum sp., Species Presence/Abundance, Specimens, Trifolium sp., Vegetation Structure
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Jervis Bay Booderee National Park Plot Network: Bird Count Survey Data, Booderee National Park, Jervis Bay Territory, 2015

This bird count data package comprises repeated time-controlled point interval counts conducted annually along a permanent 100 metre-long transect. The abundance of species observed or heard is recorded, and counts are not undertaken in poor weather (rain, fog or high wind). Two five-minute counts are conducted at each site, one at the 20 m mark and the other at 80 m mark of the transect. All birds seen or heard are recorded and assigned to different distance classes. Each site is surveyed on a different day by a different observer to reduce day effects on detection and reduce problems with observer differences. Surveys are usually completed around late September each year. Bird count surveys commenced in 2003 and have been conducted since on an annual basis, with the exception of 2008 when there was no survey. 
The Jervis Bay Plot Network was established in 2002 in Booderee National Park in the Jervis Bay Territory, south-eastern Australia. The study location is a floristically diverse area in which fire history has been well-documented over several decades. 
The plot network’s objectives involve quantifying the inter-relationships between natural disturbance and/or management intervention (including weed and feral animal control and prescribed burning) and the reciprocal changes in vegetation condition and biodiversity response. 
This particular study forms part of the collection of data packages from the Jervis Bay Plot Network. A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Jervis Bay Plot Network’s full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/jervis-bay-booderee-national-park.

Tags: Birds, Booderee National Park
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Three Parks Savanna Fire-effects Plot Network: Plot-based Vegetation Sampling Data, Nitmiluk National Park, Northern Territory, Australia, 2015

This vegetation data package comprises quantitative assessment of all species in three major strata within 800 square metre plots within Nitmiluk National Park in 2015. A total of 220 permanent monitoring plots (40 m x 20 m) were established across three parks (Kakadu, Litchfield and Nitmiluk) in 1994-1995 to monitor biotic change. Of these, 46 plots are located in Nitmuluk. These sample a variety of landform and vegetation type/habitat conditions. A substantial proportion of plots were positioned deliberately at sites likely to reveal environmental dynamics, especially at ecotones and in patches of fire-sensitive vegetation. For example stands of Callitris, sandstone heaths. As well, many plots are located at, or in the near vicinity of, intensively managed sites such as camp-grounds and other tourist destinations. A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Three Park Savanna Fire-effects Plot Network’s full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/three-parks-savanna.

Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Office of Environment and Heritage, New South Wales - TYRELL Vegetation Survey

31 Tramway Road North Avoca. The TYRELL(31 Tramway Road North Avoca) Survey is part of the Vegetation Information System Survey Program of New South Wales which is a series of systematic vegetation surveys conducted across the state between 1970 and the present.

Tags: Angophora floribunda (Sm.) Sweet, Asplenium aethiopicum (Burm.f.) Bech., Bidens pilosa L., Breynia oblongifolia (Mull.Arg.) Mull.Arg., Bulbostylis sp., Casuarina glauca Sieber ex Spreng., Cayratia clematidea (F.Muell.) Domin, Clerodendrum tomentosum (Vent.) R.Br., Cryptocarya meisneriana, Dianella caerulea Sims var. caerulea, Dioscorea transversa R.Br., Ectrosia agrostoides, Ehrharta erecta Lam., Entolasia marginata (R.Br.) Hughes, Eremophila goodwinii, Eucalyptus leucophloia subsp. euroa, Eucalyptus paniculata Sm., Eucalyptus rhombica, Eustrephus latifolius R.Br. ex Ker Gawl., Excoecaria parvifolia, Flora, Geitonoplesium cymosum (R.Br.) A.Cunn. ex Hook., Glochidion ferdinandi (Mull.Arg.) F.M.Bailey, Gomphocarpus sp., Guioa semiglauca (F.Muell.) Radlk., Hibbertia dentata R.Br. ex DC., Hypolepis muelleri N.A.Wakef., Lagunaria patersonia G.Don, Lantana camara L., Lomandra longifolia Labill., Lonicera japonica Thunb. ex Murray, Lysiana sp., Macrozamia communis L.A.S.Johnson, Marsdenia rostrata R.Br., Myrsine variabilis (R.Br.) Mez, Neosepicaea jucunda, Nephrolepis cordifolia (L.) C.Presl, Oplismenus aemulus (R.Br.) Roem. & Schult., Pandorea pandorana (Andrews) Steenis, Parsonsia straminea (R.Br.) F.Muell., Paspalum vaginatum Sw., Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud., Pittosporum revolutum Dryand. ex W.T.Aiton, Plantae sp., Polyscias sambucifolia (Sieber ex DC.) Harms, Portulaca bicolor, Rhaphidophora sp., Rhodomyrtus psidioides (G.Don) Benth., Rubus ulmifolius Schott, Scaevola spinescens, Senna pendula var. glabrata (Vogel) H.S.Irwin & Barneby, Smilax australis R.Br., Species Presence/Abundance, Tephrosia flagellaris, Thaumastochloa major, Utricularia lateriflora, Vegetation Structure, Viola hederacea Labill.
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Profile Curvature derived from 1&quot; SRTM DEM-S

Profile curvature is the rate of change of potential gradient down a flow line and represents the changes in flow velocity down a slope.  It is significant for flow acceleration, erosion/deposition rates and geomorphology.
The profile curvature product was derived from the Smoothed Digital Elevation Model (DEM-S; ANZCW0703014016), which was derived from the 1 arc-second resolution SRTM data acquired by NASA in February 2000. The calculation of profile curvature from DEM-S accounted for the varying spacing between grid points in the geographic projection. 
This collection includes Profile Curvature data at 1 arc-second and 3 arc-second resolutions.
The 3 arc-second resolution product was generated from the 1 arc-second profile curvature product and masked by the 3” water and ocean mask datasets.

Tags: Australia, ECOLOGY Landscape, LAND Topography Models, Land Surface, Profile Curvature, TERN_Soils
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Victorian Alpine Plot Network (Phenology Studies): Climate Data, South-east Highlands, Australia, 2012+

These data comprise two sets of average hourly temperature data, each for a subset of the 481 long term monitoring plots which have been established in Australian Alps during the 2011–12 season.
This is part of a dataset that spans from during data collected in 2011 to document long-term effects directly through climate and indirectly through biotic interactions. The Victorian Alpine Plot Network research plots are revisited 4 times per year. A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Victorian Alpine Plot Network’s full program is provided at http://www.ltern.org.au/index.php/ltern-plot-networks/victorian-alpine

Tags: Alpine, Climate change, On plot weather, Temperature, Weather
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
Radiation of warmest month: ANUClimate, 0.01 degree, Australian Coverage, 1970-2012

Annual radiation of warmest month for the Australian continent. Modelled by using ANUSPLIN Version 4.5 to fit trivariate thin plate smoothing spline functions of longitude, latitude and vertically exaggerated elevation. Station elevations were 0.05 degree local averages of grid values from the GEODATA 9 second DEM version 3 as provided by eMAST_ANUClimate_fx_el05_v1m0.

Tags: ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES, EARTH SCIENCES
Organization: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery