Geoscience Australia Landsat Fractional Cover Percentiles Collection 3

The Fractional Cover (Landsat) product, developed by the Joint Remote Sensing Research Program, provides information about the the proportions of:


green vegetation

non-green vegetation (including deciduous trees during autumn and dry grass)

bare areas for every 30m x 30m ground footprint

It provides insight into how areas of dry vegetation and/or bare soil and green vegetation are changing over time.


It is important to be able to analyse and interpret fractional cover. For example, the 90th percentile of bare soil for a particular year will identify areas that have experienced a high portion of bare soil during that year.


This product is designed to make it easier to analyse and interpret fractional cover. It uses the Fractional Cover (Landsat) product and calculates the statistical summaries (10th, 50th and 90th percentile) of fractional cover per epoch (whole-of-archive-summary, annual, seasonal).


This product is available in the following forms:


FC-PERCENTILE-SUMMARY


This contains a (10th, 50th and 90th percentile) of bare, green and non-green vegetation of all observations contained within the Digital Earth Australia (DEA) Fractional Cover time series (from 1987 to the most up to date imagery available).


FC-PERCENTILE-ANNUAL-SUMMARY


This contains a (10th, 50th and 90th percentile) of bare, green and non-green vegetation of observations acquired in each full calendar year (1st of January - 31st December) from 1987 to the most recent full calendar year.


FC-PERCENTILE-SEASONAL-SUMMARY


This contains a (10th, 50th and 90th percentile) of bare, green and non-green vegetation of observations acquired within each calendar season (DJF, MAM, JJA, SON). This product is available for the most recent 8 seasons.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2021-03-22
Date (Publication)
2021-07-06T07:20:51
Date (Revision)
2025-04-07
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/145501

Identifier

Codespace

Digital Obejct Identifier

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Author

Lymburner, L.

 PSCD Internal Contact
Purpose

This product provides valuable information for a range of environmental and agricultural applications, including:


- soil erosion monitoring

- land surface process modelling

- land management practices (e.g. crop rotation, stubble management, rangeland management)

- vegetation studies

- fuel load estimation

- ecosystem modelling

Status
On going
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Miller, J.

 Space Division Internal Contact
Resource provider

Space Division

 External Contact
Spatial representation type

Spatial resolution

Level of detail

30m x 30m

Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

N
S
E
W


Temporal extent

Time period
1978-03-04
Maintenance and update frequency
Annually

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Protocol

FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY

Name of the resource

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Description

Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf

  • EARTH SCIENCES

Keywords

  • land and vegetation

  • green vegetation

  • non-green vegetation

  • bare soil

Keywords

  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
OnLine resource

Link to data

Link to data

Distribution format

Resource lineage

Statement

Nationally consistent information about fractional cover (FC) dynamics is essential to addressing a range of natural resource challenges. These include land management practices, air quality, soil erosion, rangeland condition and soil carbon dynamics.


The fractional cover algorithm was developed by the Joint Remote Sensing Research Program (JRSRP) and is described in Scarth et al. (2010). While originally calibrated in Queensland, a large collaborative effort between The Department of Agriculture - ABARES and State and Territory governments to collect additional calibration data has enabled the calibration to extend to the entire Australian continent.


FC was made possible by new scientific and technical capabilities, the collaborative framework established by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), and collaborative effort between state and Commonwealth governments.


The long term acquisition plan supported by the Landsat program, in combination with Geoscience Australia's longstanding investment in the on-ground infrastructure required to capture Landsat imagery has made this product possible.


FC-PERCENTILE provides a consistent summary of fractional cover which will be an important foundation for land cover mapping and monitoring across Australia. It is a resource for natural resource managers, land surface process modellers, carbon modellers, rangeland managers, ecosystem scientists and policy makers.

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/455afadb-54c8-40ed-81f8-2db5f9554d72

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Glitsos, B.

 Space Division Internal Contact

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Name

DEA Fractional Cover Percentiles (Landsat) - Geoscience Australia Landsat Fractional Cover Collection 3

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/145501

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/455afadb-54c8-40ed-81f8-2db5f9554d72

Date info (Creation)
2025-07-14T02:45:04.628Z
Date info (Creation)
2025-04-17T02:24:19.273Z
Date info (Creation)
2025-04-07T04:44:53.201Z
Date info (Creation)
2021-06-17T02:34:45
Date info (Revision)
2025-07-14T02:45:23.771Z

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W


Keywords

bare soil green vegetation land and vegetation non-green vegetation
theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
EARTH SCIENCES

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