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Seasonal Ground Cover - Sentinel-2, JRSRP Algorithm Version 3.0, Queensland Coverage

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 26/09/2025

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The Sentinel-2 seasonal fractional ground cover product shows the proportion of bare ground, green and non-green ground cover and is derived directly from the Sentinel-2 seasonal fractional cover product, also produced by Queensland's Remote Sensing Centre. The seasonal fractional cover product is a spatially explicit raster product, which predicts vegetation cover at medium resolution (10 m per-pixel) for each 3-month calendar season. However, the seasonal fractional cover product does not distinguish tree and mid-level woody foliage and branch cover from green and dry ground cover. As a result, in areas with even minimal tree cover (>15%), estimates of ground cover become uncertain. With the development of the fractional cover time-series, it has become possible to derive an estimate of ‘persistent green’ based on time-series analysis. The persistent green vegetation product provides an estimate of the vertically-projected green-vegetation fraction where vegetation is deemed to persist over time. These areas are nominally woody vegetation. This separation of the 'persistent green' from the fractional cover product, allows for the adjustment of the underlying spectral signature of the fractional cover image and the creation of a resulting 'true' ground cover estimate for each season. The estimates of cover are restricted to areas of <60% woody vegetation. Currently, the persistent green product has only been produced at 30 m pixel resolution based on Landsat imagery, resulting in this Sentinel-2 seasonal ground cover product having a medium 30 m pixel resolution also. This is an experimental product which has not been fully validated. This product is similar to the Seasonal ground cover - Landsat, JRSRP algorithm Version 3.0, Australia Coverage which is based on a different satellite sensor.

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Field Value
Title Seasonal Ground Cover - Sentinel-2, JRSRP Algorithm Version 3.0, Queensland Coverage
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/4f8ef4ff-d2ec-437c-8482-6bb6baf2d661
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
eossdataenquiries@detsi.qld.gov.au
Reference Period 01/06/2016
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "Seasonal Ground Cover - Sentinel-2, JRSRP Algorithm Version 3.0, Queensland Coverage". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/seasonal-ground-cover-sentinel-2-jrsrp-algorithm-version-3-0-queensland-coverage