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Landsat Foliage Projective Cover - Queensland 2014

Created 12/11/2025

Updated 12/11/2025

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Foliage Projective Cover (FPC) is the percentage of ground area occupied by the vertical projection of foliage. The Remote Sensing Centre FPC mapping is based on regression models applied to dry season (May to October) Landsat-5 TM, Landsat-7 ETM and Landsat-8 OLI imagery for the period 1988-2014. An annual woody spectral index image is created for each year using a multiple regression model trained from field data collected mostly over the period 1996-1999. A robust regression of the time series of the annual woody spectral index is then performed. The estimated foliage projective cover is the prediction at the date of the selected dry season image for 2014. Where this deviates significantly from the woody spectral index for that date, further tests are undertaken before this estimate is accepted. In some cases, the final estimate is the woody spectral index value rather than the robust regressionprediction. The product is further masked to remove areasclassified as non-woody (see Landsat Woody Vegetation Extent - Queensland 2014). Corrections have been applied to remove errors due to topographic effects, cloud, cloud shadow, water, cropping, and regrowth following clearing. Some errors may remain. The product was generated from WRS-2 path/row scenes obtained from the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

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Title Landsat Foliage Projective Cover - Queensland 2014
Language English
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/db0b3dd3-8f5e-4f10-a65b-17594f85ba25
Remote Last Updated 20/02/2023
Contact Point
Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation
opendata@des.qld.gov.au
Reference Period 31/08/2016
Geospatial Coverage Queensland
Data Portal Queensland Government

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Queensland Government "Landsat Foliage Projective Cover - Queensland 2014". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/landsat-foliage-projective-cover-queensland-2014