TERN Pilbara Vegetation Monitoring for WAVE Project 2025

Six surveys between April and July 2025 collected plot-level vegetation data in the Pilbara Bioregion of Western Australia. The Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) gathered data on plant species, cover, and imagery using standardized AusPlots and EMSA protocols. Data includes plot descriptions, species lists, cover measurements, and UAV imagery from one-hectare survey sites.

Use Cases

• Modeling regional vegetation extent based on plot-level community descriptions and cover data.
• Classifying plant species distribution based on the vascular plant species lists from surveyed plots.
• Analyzing vegetation structure and change using the photopoint and UAV imagery collected at each site.

Strengths

• Data collected across six standardized surveys between April and July 2025, providing temporal snapshots.
• Each survey site is a one-hectare plot (100 m x 100 m), ensuring a consistent spatial scale for comparison.
• Methods align with established national protocols (AusPlots and EMSA), promoting comparability with other Australian ecological data.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the Pilbara Bioregion focus.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Standardized field surveys by TERN Ecosystem Surveillance and UAV data collection by DroneScape.

Time Range

April to July 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-25 10:33:43.149664; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Pilbara Bioregion, Western Australia