Monthly Vegetation Cover Fractions for Queensland from 2015

Supplying monthly raster images of fractional ground cover for Queensland, Australia, from 2015 to the present. It contains three bands representing the percentage of bare ground, green vegetation, and non-green vegetation at a 30-meter pixel resolution.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal trends in green vegetation fraction to monitor drought impacts or seasonal growth cycles.
• Model land degradation by tracking changes in the bare ground fraction over time across Queensland.
• Assess fuel load for fire risk modeling using the non-green vegetation fraction as an indicator of dry biomass.
• Validate ecological models by comparing predicted vegetation cover against the three fractional cover bands.

Strengths

• Provides continuous monthly temporal coverage from 2015 to the present.
• Offers spatially explicit data at a medium resolution of 30 meters per pixel.
• Integrates data from two satellite sources, Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2, for improved coverage.

Limitations

• The data is a medoid composite, which may not represent the true average condition for a month.
• Limited to the geographic region of Queensland, Australia.
• The 'byte' data type for bands may limit precision in fractional cover analysis.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Medoid-composited monthly fractional cover created from a combined Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 time series using the JRSRP Algorithm Version 3.0.

Time Range

2015 - present

Freshness

Updated monthly; last metadata update was 2026-03-20.

Geography

Queensland, Australia