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Geoscience Australia Landsat Fractional Cover Collection 3

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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Fractional cover data can be used to identify large scale patterns and trends and inform evidence based decision making and policy on topics including wind and water erosion risk, soil carbon dynamics, land management practices and rangeland condition. This information is used by policy agencies, natural and agricultural land resource managers, and scientists to monitor land conditions over large areas over long time frames. Fractional Cover (FC), developed by the Joint Remote Sensing Research Program, is a measurement that splits the landscape into three parts, or fractions:

green (leaves, grass, and growing crops) brown (branches, dry grass or hay, and dead leaf litter) bare ground (soil or rock) Digital Earth Australia (DEA) uses Fractional Cover to characterise every 30 m square of Australia for any point in time from 1987 to today.

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Title Geoscience Australia Landsat Fractional Cover Collection 3
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/82e0a571-8b78-4356-ad4b-99791e05cb02
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 04/03/1987
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        112.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        154.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        154.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        112.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        112.0,
        -44.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Geoscience Australia

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Geoscience Australia Landsat Fractional Cover Collection 3". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/geoscience-australia-landsat-fractional-cover-collection-3