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Daintree Rainforest, Cow Bay Phenocam Images and Phenology Data Collection

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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Fixed cameras installed at TERN Daintree Rainforest SuperSite, Cow Bay provide a time series of fine scale data as a long-term record of vegetation structure and condition. This dense time series of phenocam images provides data for analysis of ecological responses to climate variability, and when consolidated across the entire terrestrial ecosystem research network, supports calibration and validation of satellite-derived remote sensing data, ensuring delivery of higher quality results for broader scale environmental monitoring products.

Images are captured half hourly during daylight hours. Images and data products, including timeseries of the Green Chromatic Coordinate (Gcc) for a region-of-interest (ROI) that delineates an area of specific vegetation type, are made available on an almost real-time basis.

TERN Daintree Rainforest SuperSite, Cow Bay is classed as complex mesophyll vine forest and has an average canopy height of 30 m. The site has 91 species with dominant canopy trees belonging to the Arecaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Rutaceae, Meliaceae, Myristicaceae and Icacinaceae families. For additional site information, see https://www.tern.org.au/tern-observatory/tern-ecosystem-processes/daintree-rainforest-supersite/.

Other images collected at the site include ancillary images of fauna and flora.

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Title Daintree Rainforest, Cow Bay Phenocam Images and Phenology Data Collection
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/6fab0f21-56fe-41e6-8d46-ba57aed497e7
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network�s Data Discovery
michael.liddell@jcu.edu.au
Reference Period 01/06/2013
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    145.4469,
    -16.1032
  ],
  "type": "Point"
}
Data Portal Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "Daintree Rainforest, Cow Bay Phenocam Images and Phenology Data Collection". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/daintree-rainforest-cow-bay-phenocam-images-and-phenology-data-collection