TERN is supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy.
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network Delivering Ecosystem data for research and management
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Outline
• Introduction to TERN
• TERN Data Publication highlights
TERN purpose1
• National infrastructure for collecting, storing and sharing Australia’s terrestrial ecosystem data sets and knowledge.
• Build and manage data infrastructure to provide public access to terrestrial ecosystem data.
• Facilitate open access to terrestrial ecosystem research data.
• Promote the culture of data sharing and re-use in ecosystem community.
1TERN is supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy
Instruments + Sensors
Policy + Management
Analysis + Synthesis
Modelling
Data Searching
Data Sharing
Data Curation + Publishing
Data Storage
Processing + Analysis
Collection Methods
• TERN’s infrastructure for ecosystem science
TERN Challenges
Dealing with Multi-discipline domains and community
– Managing multiple terrestrial scientific domains or disciplines
– Partnership with several institutes, state and federal agencies
– Built on existing infrastructure and large co-contribution
TERN Data Publication Highlights
Over 2400 data collections including: • Publication data close to 100,000 ecological sites
– State government plot networks – 12 long term research networks – 10 ecosystem observatories
• Hourly time-series flux data across Australia – 30 towers from Australia and NZ
TERN Data Publication Highlights
• Over 40 continental scale remote sensing data products – Land cover dynamics and phenology
– Vegetation composition and structure
– Fire dynamics ad impacts
– Airborne data products
• Over 30 continental scale soil and landscape attributes data
• Coastal ecosystem datasets – National seagrass
– Beach observation from 40 sites
– Water quality
• Continental scale data on climate variables at 1 km spatial resolution;
International Partners
TERN is supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy
More information
• TERN website: www.tern.org.au
• Discover TERN Data: www.portal.tern.org.au
• Data submission with DOI : www.shared.org.au
• Virtual desktop platform: www.portal.coesra.org.au
Technical enquiries: [email protected]
General enquiries: [email protected]
