Hemispherical Photography - Australian field sites

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

Hemispherical photography has been collected across Australia to characterise plant canopy cover and structure, and to study leaf area index. Hemispherical photography is a technique for quantifying plant canopies via photographs captured through a digital camera with hemispherical or fisheye lens. Such photographs can be captured from beneath the canopy, looking upwards, (orientated towards zenith) or above the canopy looking downwards. These measurements have typically been collected in conjunction with the Statewide Landcover and Trees Study (SLATS) star transects field data together with plant canopy analysers such as LAI-2200 and CI-110.

Data can be downloaded from https://field.jrsrp.com/ by selecting the combination Field and Hemispheric imagery. Photographs can be accesed through the right-hand side panel, or by finding the file_loc attribute in the csv file.

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Title Hemispherical Photography - Australian field sites
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/ba56b40a-178e-4a04-8644-7f71772daf19
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network�s Data Discovery
rebecca.farrell@des.qld.gov.au
Reference Period 31/01/2012
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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      ],
      [
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      ],
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      ],
      [
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      ],
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      ]
    ]
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  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "Hemispherical Photography - Australian field sites". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/hemispherical-photography-australian-field-sites