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Biomass Plot Library - National Collation of Stem Inventory Data and Biomass Estimation, Australian Field Sites

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 26/09/2025

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The Biomass Plot Library is a collation of stem inventory data across federal, state and local government departments, universities, private companies and other agencies. It was motivated by the need for calibration/validation data to underpin national mapping of above-ground biomass from integration of Landsat time-series, ICESat/GLAS lidar, and ALOS PALSAR bacscatter data under the auspices of the JAXA Kyoto & Carbon (K&C) Initiative (Armston et al., 2016). At the time of Version 1.0 publication 1,073,837 hugs of 839,866 trees across 1,467 species had been collated. This has resulted from 16,391 visits to 12,663 sites across most of Australia's bioregions. Data provided for each project by the various source organisation were imported to a PostGIS database in their native form and then translated to a common set of tree, plot and site level observations with explicit plot footprints where available.

Data can be downloaded from https://field.jrsrp.com/ by selecting the combinations Tree biomass and Site Level, Tree Biomass and Tree Level.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title Biomass Plot Library - National Collation of Stem Inventory Data and Biomass Estimation, Australian Field Sites
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/4f591b29-1f11-4934-ab37-dd355895da06
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
armston@umd.edu
Reference Period 26/11/1936 - 20/10/2015
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "Biomass Plot Library - National Collation of Stem Inventory Data and Biomass Estimation, Australian Field Sites". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/biomass-plot-library-national-collation-of-stem-inventory-data-and-biomass-estimation-australia1