Australian Woody Vegetation Cover Maps from Landsat 2000-2010

A source of three geospatial maps of Australian woody vegetation derived from Landsat data for the period 2000-2010. The maps include foliage projective cover, forest extent attributed with cover, and classification accuracy masks.

Use Cases

• Analyze changes in forest extent classification across Australia from 2000 to 2010.
• Model foliage projective cover values to assess vegetation density.
• Use classification accuracy masks to filter or weight analyses of woody extent data.
• Integrate foliage projective cover and forest extent layers for ecological habitat studies.

Strengths

• Provides a decade of temporal coverage from 2000 to 2010.
• Contains three distinct thematic map layers for analysis.
• Covers the entire continent of Australia.

Limitations

• Data is over a decade old, limiting current ecological analysis.
• No tabular column or sample data is provided for quantitative statistical modeling.
• Primary file formats (HTML, PNG, WMS) are not ideal for large-scale computational analysis.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Derived from Landsat satellite imagery.

Time Range

2000-2010

Freshness

Last metadata update was 2026-03-20, but the underlying data covers 2000-2010.

Geography

Australia