TERN is Australia's ecosystem observatory
TERN provides world-class research infrastructure to monitor and understand changes to our environment and climate and enable predictions of future risks.
TERN Data

Tools that support the discovery, analysis and re-use of data

  • Cloud-based virtual desktop to run and share experiments (CoESRA)
  • Data submission, harmonisation and retrieval of ecological data (SHaRED)
  • Discovery, mapping and analysis of landscape-scale ecosystem datasets (Data Visualiser)
  • Cloud-based analysis, synthesis and training platform
Open data

Long-term preservation and open access for ecosystem and biophysical data via the TERN Data Discovery Portal

  • Continental-scale gridded remote sensing, soil and landscape products
  • Plot-based soil and vegetation surveillance monitoring data
  • Aggregated state government survey data
  • Calibration and validation data for remote sensing
  • Time series flux tower, phenocam and acoustic monitoring sensor data
Data
Infrastructure

Tools that support the discovery, analysis and re-use of data

  • Cloud-based virtual desktop to run and share experiments (CoESRA)
  • Data submission, harmonisation and retrieval of ecological data (SHaRED)
  • Discovery, mapping and analysis of landscape-scale ecosystem datasets (Data Visualiser)
  • Cloud-based analysis, synthesis and training platform
Standard Methods, Protocols
& Collections

Services that facilitate research, education and management

  • Catalogued plant and soil sample collection
  • Nationally consistent field methods
  • Guidelines for calibration and validation of remotely-sensed data
  • Field data collection apps
Site-Based Instruments
& Monitoring

A network of ecosystem monitoring sites and sensor data streams available to long-term researchers

  • Eddy covariance flux towers; Heat flux plates; Radiometers; Anemometers; Infrared Gas Analysers; Spectrometers; CosmOz soil moisture meters; Groundwater bores; Ecoacoustic sensors; Phenocams; Terrestrial laser scanners; UAV/drones; Camera traps; Photopoints and more.
Open Data

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Open access ecosystem data via the TERN Data portal

  • Continental-scale gridded remote sensing, soil and landscape products
  • Plot-based soil and vegetation surveillance monitoring data
  • Aggregated state government survey data
  • Calibration and validation data for remote sensing
  • Time series flux tower, phenocam and acoustic monitoring sensor data
Data Infrastructure

Find out more

Tools that support the discovery, analysis and re-use of data

  • Cloud-based virtual desktop to run and share experiments (CoESRA)
  • Data submission, harmonisation and retrieval of ecological data (SHaRED)
  • Discovery, mapping and analysis of landscape-scale ecosystem datasets (Data Visualiser)
  • Cloud-based analysis, synthesis and training platform
Research & Management Tools

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Services that facilitate research, education and management

  • Catalogued plant and soil sample collection
  • Nationally consistent field methods
  • Guidelines for calibration and validation of remotely-sensed data
  • Field data collection apps
Site-Based Research Equipment

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A network of ecosystem monitoring sites and sensor data streams available to long term researchers

  • Eddy covariance flux towers; Heat flux plates; Radiometers; Anemometers; Infrared Gas Analysers; Spectrometers; CosmOz soil moisture meters; Groundwater bores; Ecoacoustic sensors; Phenocams; Terrestrial laser scanners; UAV/drones; Camera traps; Photopoints; & more…
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ecosystem
observing sites
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open data
collections
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national &
international partners
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for datasets
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peer reviewed papers
using TERN data
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environmental
samples

If you’d like to make an enquiry to TERN, you can call us on 07 3365 9097, email the research team at tern@uq.edu.au, or submit your enquiry online.

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