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

• 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 > SOUTHERN OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN > MACQUARIE ISLAND; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > 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

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