Annual Photopoint Images of a Tall Eucalypt Forest Plot

Holding annual high-quality digital reference images of a 1-hectare vegetation plot at the Warra Tall Eucalypt Site, established in 2012. The set for each year typically consists of twenty images captured from five photopoints, including views from the plot corners and center. The images provide visual context to monitor changes, such as vegetation recovery following a fire in January 2019.

Use Cases

• Analyze vegetation recovery and structural changes following the 2019 fire using the annual photopoint image series.
• Monitor long-term plot layout and understorey dynamics by comparing the four cardinal-facing images from each plot corner.
• Study the regeneration of the man-fern ground-layer and rainforest understorey using the center-facing images from the plot corners.

Strengths

• Images are captured annually using a standardized five-point photopoint method, ensuring temporal consistency.
• The site has been established since 2012, providing a multi-year visual record of the ecosystem.
• Images document a specific ecological event, capturing the site's condition before and after a fire in January 2019.

Limitations

• The dataset consists of static images without associated tabular data or structured metadata columns.
• The spatial coverage is limited to a single 1-hectare plot within the Warra Tall Eucalypt Site.
• Image analysis requires manual interpretation or custom computer vision techniques, as no pre-extracted features are provided.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Images captured annually using the five-point photopoint method from fixed locations within the plot.

Time Range

Annual collections since the site's establishment in 2012.

Freshness

Annual updates, with the last metadata update recorded in March 2026.

Geography

Warra Tall Eucalypt Site, a stand of tall, mixed-aged Eucalyptus obliqua forest in Tasmania, Australia.