Auscover.org.au Website Review

TERN AusCover delivers earth observation data and products that describe important land-surface and environmental characteristics derived using satellite and airborne imagery. and management. Providing critical research infrastructure, TERN enables Australians to track, understand and respond to change in ecosystems through time and across the breadth of the continent. It provides easy access for anyone – community members, policy-makers and industry leaders as well as scientists – to national information about the ecosystems on which our livelihoods, lifestyles and identify TERN AusCover is a national data delivery service and expert network providing a range of remote sensing information about Australian environments. Our main products include time-series of key environmental variables, continental-scale map products, high-resolution datasets for particular sites, and essential ground calibration and validation datasets for airborne and satellite image Our team is spread nationwide across our many partner organisations, with central coordination offered from a Canberra-based team. Our primary goal is to deliver useful products designed specifically for Australian conditions, which can help a wide range of people to better We take a nationally consistent approach to the calibration, validation, and delivery of important satellite- and airborne-derived datasets, ensuring that our users can have high confidence in our products. TERN AusCover supports a nationally consistent approach to the calibration, validation, and delivery of earth observation data products. To ensure that earth observation data is useful to a wide range of users, the collection and delivery of this data needs to be accurate, precise, and use reproducible methods. To support the earth observation community in achieving a high quality and consistent approach nationwide, we’ve developed our ‘Good Practice Guidelines’ that provide advice on calibrating and validating earth