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Heard Island: baseline data for monitoring longterm change. (f) 35mm photos (terrestrial) from fixed photo-points, 2003-2004.

Entry ID: HI_VEG_PHOTOPOINTS_2

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Summary

Abstract: The 35mm photos were taken by Dr Jenny Scott between December 2003 and February 2004 using two Nikon FM-2 SLR cameras with 50mm and 28mm lenses. The photos are part of a longterm fixed-point photo-monitoring project, started as part of ASAC Project 1181 (ASAC_1181), and the majority of image locations are the same as for the photo series taken by Scott between 1986-2000 (HI_VEG_PHOTOPOINTS_1). ... The photos serve as a baseline for documenting vegetation and landscape change, both between the two existing time series 1986-2000 and 2003-04, and in the future.

Area covered: eastern and southern Heard Island from Fairchild Beach (Compton Lagoon) to Long Beach.

Number of images: 1633, ranging between 1-3 MB. Images are stored in seven zip files, according to location. For more information, see metadata notes (word doc) accompanying the images.

Zip files cover the locations as follows:
- Fairchild Beach (FB). 181 images. Includes north side of Brown Lagoon.
- Skua Beach (SK). 313 images. Includes North Skua and Scarlet Hill.
- Stephenson Moraine (SP). 143 images.
- Spit North (SN) and SpitSouth (SS). 309 images.
- Paddick Valley (PV) and Winston Lagoon east (WE). 203 images.
- Capsize Beach (CB) and Winston Lagoon west (WL). 193 images.
- Long Beach, Lavett Bluff, Lambeth Bluff (LB). 291 images.

For each main location (ie each zip-file) there are folders with 28mm images (wide-angle) and folders with 50mm images (standard view) of basically the same series of photo-points. They are called eg. 'Skua 28mm', 'Skua 50mm'. The 28mm images can be viewed first to give an overall impression, and the 50mm images of selected sites can be viewed to give greater detail. The photo-points are arranged in approximate numerical order in each series of 28mm folders and 50mm folders. Note that the 28mm and 50mm series do not always match up completely; not all image series are repeated with 50mm and several images may be 50mm only. The majority of photo-points consist of a series of images (both 28mm and 50mm) forming a panorama progressing from left to right.

Photo-point location shapefiles:

There are two shapefiles showing location of DGPS photo-points and handheld GPS photo-points. The handheld GPS unit was used on several occasions when the DGPS system was unavailable. Image labels eg. JJS-SK-001 and JJS_SK_001 signify the same photo-point. For information on labelling, see metadata notes (word doc) accompanying the images.

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Link: GET DATA

Description: Download point for the data - shapefiles and documentation

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: -52.57

S: -53.2

E: 73.87

W: 73.25

Parent DIF

This data set description is a member of a collection. The collection is described in
HI_VEG_OVERALL

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2003-12-01

Stop Date: 2004-02-01

Location Keywords

OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > Heard Island

CONTINENT > AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND > AUSTRALIA > Heard Island

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS

Science Keywords

BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > VEGETATION COVER

ISO Topic Category

BIOTA

Platform

FIELD SURVEYS

FIELD INVESTIGATION

Instrument

CAMERAS

Quality The 35mm photos were taken by Dr Jenny Scott between December 2003 and February 2004 using two Nikon FM-2 SLR cameras with 50mm and 28mm lenses. The photos are part of a longterm fixed-point photo-monitoring project, started as part of ASAC Project 1181 (ASAC_1181), and the majority of image locations are the same as for the photo series taken by Scott between 1986-2000 (HI_VEG_PHOTOPOINTS_1). ...

Access Constraints Contact the technical contact at the AADC for access to the scans of the slides. The data are available on CD/DVD.

The shapefile, excel spreadsheet and word document are publicly available for download from the URL given below.

Use Constraints This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=HI_VEG_P... when using these data.

Please also contact the investigator when using these data.

Ancillary Keywords

HEARD ISLAND

PHOTOGRAPHS

SOUTHERN OCEAN

VEGETATION

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Data Center

Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia

Data Center URL: http://data.aad.gov.au

Data Center Personnel
Name: DATA OFFICER AADC Phone: +61 3 6232 3244 Fax: +61 3 6232 3351 Email: metadata at aad.gov.au Contact Address: Australian Antarctic Division 203 Channel Highway City: Kingston Province or State: Tasmania Postal Code: 7050 Country: Australia

Distribution

Distribution Media: HTTP

Distribution Size: 23 kb

Distribution Format: file 2146 - shapefiles

Fees: free

Personnel

JENNIFER SCOTT

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Role: DIF AUTHOR

Phone: +61 3 6226 2205

Fax: +61 3 6226 2989

Email: jenny.scott at utas.edu.au

Contact Address:

SCHOOL OF GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

University of Tasmania

PRIVATE BAG 78

City: HOBART

Province or State: Tasmania

Postal Code: 7001

Country: Australia

URSULA HARRIS

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Phone: +61 3 6232 3519

Fax: +61 3 6232 3351

Email: metadata at aad.gov.au

Contact Address:

Australian Antarctic Division

203 Channel Highway

City: Kingston

Province or State: Tasmania

Postal Code: 7050

Country: Australia

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2006-07-05

Last DIF Revision Date: 2010-12-22

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