f3635394-c1e2-47ea-8994-447d6200132b urn:uuid English UTF-8 nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset 2018-07-19T00:35:59 creation ISO 19115 2016 Murray-Darling Basin Tree Stand Condition Assessment Tool f3635394-c1e2-47ea-8994-447d6200132b The stand condition of river red gums, black box and coolibah have been identified as objectives to measure the progress towards achieving outcomes of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. The Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) commissioned a spatial stand condition assessment tool of these trees in 2014. The tool defined the extent of these communities by using a predictive model based on existing vegetation mapping and an analysis of satellite images. The assessment tool involves a combination of quantitative ground surveys, remote sensing and modelling using machine learning. The ground surveys record the percentage of live leaf area, plant area index and crown extent. These parameters have been identified as being reliable and objective indicators of stand condition in floodplain forests. The assessment tool was backdated to 2009, and then updated every year up to 2016 using Landsat 8 imagery. The assessment was not completed for 2011 and 2013 due to corrupt Landsat 7 imagery and flooding preventing completion of fieldwork. The MDBA has made the assessment tool related resources publicly available as part of its commitment to the Australian Government policy on public data and information. Due to the large file size, the following files are not uploaded to www.data.gov.au but are available on request from gis@mdba.gov.au. • Stand Condition Assessment tool - Stand Condition Assessment tool software (.exe; 299MB) • Input Data - six epochs of 2009, 2010, 2012-2016 and Landsat time composite images (floating point raster image) • Output data - Stand condition time series shapefiles (six epochs between 2009-2016) for red gum, black box and coolibah (geodatabase of shape files; 990MB) • Output data - four bands Landsat stand condition output image with bands one to four contains crown extent, plant area index, live basal area and condition score respectively (floating point raster image; 331GB – approximately 50GB per epoch). The Terms and conditions for using the data and related resources from this website can be found at https://www.data.gov.au/about. Muray-Darling Basin 153.0679 153.0679 -29.9818 -29.9818 Aquatic Ecosystem Studies and Stock Assessment Basin Analysis Basin Plan evaluation Behavioural Ecology Biological Adaptation Biota Conservation and Biodiversity Environment Environmental Impact Assessment Environmental Management Environmental Monitoring Freshwater Ecology Imagery base maps and Earth cover Murray-Darling Basin Plant Biology not elsewhere classified Simulation and Modelling Terrestrial Ecology Tree Nutrition and Physiology Tree condition assessment Tree stand condition black box coolibah ecological health flood plain and riverine forests floodplain vegetation native vegetation river red gums vegetation mapping MDB tree stand condition monitoring tool description.docx documentDigital READ ME FIRST - A descriptive note on the Murray-Darling Basin tree stand condition tool and the project MS Word Development of a stand condition monitoring tool for the Murray-Darling Basin documentDigital Final report of the development of a tree stand condition monitoring tool for the Murray-Darling Basin. Report prepared by Newell et al., of the Arthur Rylah Institute for the Murray-Darling Basin Authority to facilitate assessing the stand condition of river red gums, black box and coolibah as part of the evaluation of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. PDF MD Veg Monitor Users Guide.pdf documentDigital Murray-Darling Basin Tree Stand Condition Assessment Tool user guide PDF uniAll_Scores.xlsx documentDigital Input data - Field data used for model calibration and validation CSV TLM_red_gum_forest Sept 2014.zip documentDigital Input data - Cunningham 2013 tree classification layer for red gum, black box and coolibah ZIP MDBVTmap1.zip documentDigital Input data - Cunningham 2013 tree classification layer for red gum, black box and coolibah; Murray-Darling Basin vegetation map ZIP BWSRegions.zip documentDigital Input data - Basin-wide Environmental Watering Strategy (BWS) Appendix 3 regions ZIP TLM_box_woodlandSept 2014.shp documentDigital TLM_black_box_woodlandSept 2014.shp documentDigital TLM Forest & Woodland extent Sept 2014.shp documentDigital TLM_red_gum_woodland Sept 2014.shp documentDigital TLM_red_gum_box_woodland Sept 2014.shp documentDigital TLM_red_gum_black_box_woodland Sept 2014.shp documentDigital TLM_red_gum_forest Sept 2014.shp documentDigital