About this Provider
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network is an NCRIS funded program. NCRIS is a national network of world-class research infrastructure projects that support high-quality research that will drive greater innovation in the Australian research sector and the economy more broadly.
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Contact Information
- TERN, UQ Long Pocket Precinct, Building #1019, Level 5, 80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, QLD 4068, Australia
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TYPE OF CLIENTS
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TERN monitors changes in the health of Australia’s land ecosystems. TERN’s long-term data streams and products enable Australia’s world-leading research and decision-making on climate change, biodiversity, water and soil and support international research collaborations, Australia’s membership of the Global Ecosystem Research Infrastructure and government environmental reporting. Methods used in data collection include field survey, airborne and stationary sensors, remote sensing and model-driven derived products.
HOW WE CAN HELP
Monitor Australia's environment 24/7, 365 days a year to enable ecosystem research and decision-making and help Australians prepare for the future.
- Open access ecosystem data via the TERN Data portal
- Continental-scale gridded remote sensing, soil and landscape products
- Plot-based soil and vegetation surveillance monitoring data
- Aggregated state government survey data
- Calibration and validation data for remote sensing
- Time series flux tower, phenocam and acoustic monitoring sensor data
- Tools that support the discovery, analysis and re-use of data
- Cloud-based virtual desktop to run and share experiments (CoESRA)
- Data submission, harmonisation and retrieval of ecological data (SHaRED)
- Discovery, mapping and analysis of landscape-scale ecosystem datasets (Data Visualiser)
- Cloud-based analysis, synthesis and training platform
- Services that facilitate research, education and management
- Catalogued plant and soil sample biorepository
- Nationally consistent field methods
- Guidelines for calibration and validation of remotely-sensed data
- Field data collection apps
- A network of ecosystem monitoring sites and sensor data streams available to long term researchers
- Eddy covariance flux towers; Heat flux plates; Radiometers; Anemometers; Infrared Gas Analysers; Spectrometers; CosmOz soil moisture meters; Groundwater bores; Ecoacoustic sensors; Phenocams; Terrestrial laser scanners; UAV/drones; Camera traps; Photopoints; & more…
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