The national State of the Environment (SoE) report provides authoritative information on the natural environment that sustains our economy and wellbeing.
It provides the Australian Government and other decision-makers with an assessment of how effectively the Australian environment is being managed and the key national environmental issues. These five-year assessments must be based on trustworthy data, processed in reproducible ways.
A critical input to this activity is the work of Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) and the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS). It relies extensively on integrating high-quality national biodiversity and environmental data. For example, TERN observes, records and measures critical terrestrial ecosystem parameters and conditions for Australia over time from continental scale to field sites at hundreds of representative locations. This information is standardised, integrated and transformed into model-ready data, enabling researchers to discern and interpret changes in land ecosystems.
To further support this work, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) has launched EcoAssets, a policy- and industry-ready collection of open, integrated biodiversity and monitoring activity datasets from ALA, TERN and IMOS that are findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR). This will add significant value to the SoE report and other activities such as environmental accounting and impact assessments.
To further support this work, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) has launched EcoAssets, a policy- and industry-ready collection of open, integrated biodiversity and monitoring activity datasets from ALA, TERN and IMOS that are findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR). This will add significant value to the SoE report and other activities such as environmental accounting and impact assessments.
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