Can remote sensing be used to map vegetation and monitor community change in Antarctica?

This dataset consists of Hyperion satellite imagery, as well as GPS ground truthing of vegetation quadrats. The aims of this project were: 1. to produce a spectral library of the major subantarctic terrestrial plant species and community types from ground spectroradiometery measurements . 2. to use...

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Other Authors: ROBINSON, SHARON (hasPrincipalInvestigator), ROBINSON, SHARON (processor), TURNBULL, JOHANNA (processor), BRADNER, SUSAN (processor), FYFE, SUE (processor), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Subjects:
biota
imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
VEGETATION COVER
EARTH SCIENCE
BIOSPHERE
VEGETATION
VEGETATION SPECIES
GROUND SPECTROMETRY
HYPERSPECTRAL
MONITORING
REMOTE SENSING
SATELLITE
SPECTRAL LIBRARY
HEARD ISLAND
Spectroradiometers
SATELLITES
OCEAN &gt
SOUTHERN OCEAN
SOUTHERN OCEAN &gt
MACQUARIE ISLAND
GEOGRAPHIC REGION &gt
POLAR
HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS
Dovers
Dovers Moraine
Fairchild Beach
Fontana
Heard
Heard Island
Hyperion
McDonald Islands
Skua Beach
Southern Ocean
Turnbull
Antarc*
Antarctica
Macquarie Island
Online Access:https://researchdata.ands.org.au/remote-sensing-used-change-antarctica/699898
https://doi.org/10.4225/15/5b32c7f546d1d
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_2392
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536
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Summary:This dataset consists of Hyperion satellite imagery, as well as GPS ground truthing of vegetation quadrats. The aims of this project were: 1. to produce a spectral library of the major subantarctic terrestrial plant species and community types from ground spectroradiometery measurements . 2. to use the spectral library to assist in classification of vegetation communities. File: 2392HI2003_04 Vegetation Survey Data.xls Table of vegetation data collected from Heard Island in the summer of 2003-2004 by Johanna Turnbull. Areas surveyed were Paddick Valley, Fairchild Beach, Dovers Moraine and Skua Beach. Ten 1x1 m quadrats were sampled with each 30x30 m site surveyed. Quadrats were selected haphazardly. Numbers are given as percentage cover of each species, averaged out over the ten sampled quadrats, unless otherwise stated. The Codes used for species/ground cover types and vegetation communities/associations can be found in sheet 2 of the excel file, called 'vegetation codes'. They are also listed below: Vegetation - Species/Ground Cover Types Code - Species/ground cover types AM - Acaena magellanica AS - Azorella selago CA - Callitriche CA w/ H2O - Callitriche in water CO - Colobanthus sp. DE - Deschampsia G - Gravel L - Lichen LI - Liverwort M - Moss/Bryophytes MO - Montia fontana PA - Pringlea antiscorbutica PAN - Poa annua PC - Poa cookii PK - Poa kuerguelensis PK/PC - P. kerguelensis / P. cookii Hybrid R - rock S - sand / soil W - Water Vegetation - Communities / Associations Code - Community DCC - Closed Cushionfield DCC w/ Aceana - Closed Cushionfield with Aceana DCC/H - Closed Cushionfield/Herbfield DCC/H/T - Cushionfield/Herbfield/Tussock FF - Fellfield H - Herbfield MF - Mossfield PC/M - Pool Complex/Meadow PCC - Open Cushionfield PCC/MF - Open Cushionfield/Mossfield SM - Mire/Flush/Meadow SM/PCC - Mire/Flush/Open Cushionfield THD - Tussock with Cushionfield/Herbfield

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