LAN22a Proportion of bare soil,...

2016 SoE Land Proportion of bare soil, photosynthetically active vegetation...

Created 01/02/2017

Updated 09/08/2023

Map prepared by the Department of Environment and Energy.

Source: The data underpinning this figure was obtained through TERN AusCover (http://www.auscover.org.au). TERN is Australia’s land-based ecosystem observatory delivering data streams to enable environmental research and management (TERN, http://www.tern.org.au). TERN is a part of Australia’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS, https://www.education.gov.au/national-collaborative-research-infrastructure-strategy-ncris).

METADATA For further information regarding metadata see: http://www.auscover.org.au/xwiki/bin/view/Product+pages/Fractional+Cover+MODIS+CLW

The data can be freely downloaded and used subject to CC BY licencing. CSIRO requests, however that you send them citations and copies of publications arising from work that use these data.

Note, the content has previously been published in: Juan P. Guerschman, Peter F. Scarth, Tim R. McVicar, Luigi J. Renzullo, Tim J. Malthus, Jane B. Stewart, Jasmine E. Rickards, Rebecca Trevithick (2015). Assessing the effects of site heterogeneity and soil properties when unmixing photosynthetic vegetation, non-photosynthetic vegetation and bare soil fractions from Landsat and MODIS data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 161, 12–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2015.01.021

Source

This data file or API can be downloaded from:

http://www.environment.gov.au/mapping/rest/services/digital_soe/soe2016_lan1/MapServer/12