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Building an Australian Phenocam NetworkA Report from the 2014 ACEAS Phenology Monitoring Working Group
Tim Brown (Australian National University)
ACEAS Workshop Participants – March, 2014Trevor Keenan (Co-Organizer), Alison Specht, Mike Liddell, Natalia Restrepo Coupe, Ivan Hanigan, Jeff Taylor, Yu Liu, Eva Van Gorsel, Albert Van Dijk, Remko Duursma, Caitlin Moore, Stefan Meier, Grant Thorpe, Andrew Richardson, Oliver Sonnentag.
Complex Systems• Complex systems solve problems based on the
rate of information exchange, complexity of connective networks and quality of information available
Research as a complex systemCurrent ecological questions are too hard to be understood with existing data and methods
Barriers to knowledge discovery in ecology:
Research as a complex systemCurrent ecological questions are too hard to be understood with existing data and methods
Barriers to knowledge discovery in ecology:• Rate of data discovery: Tools available and ease of use
Research as a complex systemCurrent ecological questions are too hard to be understood with existing data and methods
Barriers to knowledge discovery in ecology:• Rate of data discovery: Tools available and ease of use
• How easy is it to find existing data: Journal Paywalls
Research as a complex systemCurrent ecological questions are too hard to be understood with existing data and methods
Barriers to knowledge discovery in ecology:• Rate of data discovery: Tools available and ease of use
• How easy is it to find existing data: Journal Paywalls
• Ease of using existing data: Unavailable/non-interoperable data
Research as a complex systemCurrent ecological questions are too hard to be understood with existing data and methods
Barriers to knowledge discovery in ecology:• Rate of data discovery: Tools available and ease of use
• How easy is it to find existing data: Journal Paywalls
• Ease of using existing data: Unavailable/non-interoperable data
• Data quality: Time period monitored; precision; spatial resolution
Research as a complex systemCurrent ecological questions are too hard to be understood with existing data and methods
Barriers to knowledge discovery in ecology:• Rate of data discovery: Tools available and ease of use
• How easy is it to find existing data: Journal Paywalls
• Ease of using existing data: Unavailable/non-interoperable data
• Data quality: Time period monitored; precision; spatial resolution
• Data Analysis How hard is it to work with data, ask new questions and answer them Wikipedia/Google/Smartphones
Research as a complex systemCurrent ecological questions are too hard to be understood with existing data and methods
Barriers to knowledge discovery in ecology:• Rate of data discovery: Tools available and ease of use
• How easy is it to find existing data: Journal Paywalls
• Ease of using existing data: Unavailable/non-interoperable data
• Data quality: Time period monitored; precision; spatial resolution
• Data Analysis How hard is it to work with data, ask new questions and answer them Wikipedia/Google/Smartphones
• The bottom line: How hard (and costly) is it to answer a given question? Reducing these barriers increases knowledge discovery
Research as a complex systemCurrent ecological questions are too hard to be understood with existing data and methods
Barriers to knowledge discovery in ecology:• Rate of data discovery: Tools available and ease of use
• How easy is it to find existing data: Journal Paywalls
• Ease of using existing data: Unavailable/non-interoperable data
• Data quality: Time period monitored; precision; spatial resolution
• Data Analysis How hard is it to work with data, ask new questions and answer them Wikipedia/Google/Smartphones
• The bottom line: How hard (and costly) is it to answer a given question? Reducing these barriers increases knowledge discovery
Traditionally field ecology has had very limited capacity
Traditionally field ecology has had very limited capacity
• Low spatial/time resolution data
Traditionally field ecology has had very limited capacity
• Low spatial/time resolution data• Limited sensors other than weather
Traditionally field ecology has had very limited capacity
• Low spatial/time resolution data• Limited sensors other than weather• Sampling is manual; subjective
Traditionally field ecology has had very limited capacity
• Low spatial/time resolution data• Limited sensors other than weather• Sampling is manual; subjective • Observations not-interoperable • little or no data sharing• often proprietary
Traditionally field ecology has had very limited capacity
• Low spatial/time resolution data• Limited sensors other than weather• Sampling is manual; subjective • Observations not-interoperable • little or no data sharing• often proprietary
• Repeat experiments to verify results are often at different site by different observers
Traditionally field ecology has had very limited capacity
• Low spatial/time resolution data• Limited sensors other than weather• Sampling is manual; subjective • Observations not-interoperable • little or no data sharing• often proprietary
• Repeat experiments to verify results are often at different site by different observers
What % of data from the last century of ecology is available for reuse?
Traditionally field ecology has had very limited capacity
• Low spatial/time resolution data• Limited sensors other than weather• Sampling is manual; subjective • Observations not-interoperable • little or no data sharing• often proprietary
• Repeat experiments to verify results are often at different site by different observers
What % of data from the last century of ecology is available for reuse?
(even your own data)
“Next-Gen” ecology
“Next-Gen” ecology• Large, long-term field projects with standardized instruments and
data products (“Big Data”): TERN, NEON, FluxNet
“Next-Gen” ecology• Large, long-term field projects with standardized instruments and
data products (“Big Data”): TERN, NEON, FluxNet• NEON:• 106 sites around the US• 30-years• Each site has the same suite of 100’s of types of calibrated
sensors; coupled with on-the-ground measurements, annual aerial overflights
• Billions of data points per year• All data public
“Next-Gen” ecology• Large, long-term field projects with standardized instruments and
data products (“Big Data”): TERN, NEON, FluxNet• NEON:• 106 sites around the US• 30-years• Each site has the same suite of 100’s of types of calibrated
sensors; coupled with on-the-ground measurements, annual aerial overflights
• Billions of data points per year• All data public
• Requires: Public Data, Data Standards and Synthesis
“Next-Gen” ecology• Large, long-term field projects with standardized instruments and
data products (“Big Data”): TERN, NEON, FluxNet• NEON:• 106 sites around the US• 30-years• Each site has the same suite of 100’s of types of calibrated
sensors; coupled with on-the-ground measurements, annual aerial overflights
• Billions of data points per year• All data public
• Requires: Public Data, Data Standards and Synthesis• Enables: Data Sharing and collaboration ; Increases our ability to
solve complex problems
Big Data is not just for “big” projects
National Arboretum Phenomic & Environmental Sensor Array(Canberra, ACT)
National Arboretum Sensor Array
National Arboretum Sensor Array• 20-node Wireless mesh sensor network (Temp, Hg, PAR, Soil T/H)
National Arboretum Sensor Array• 20-node Wireless mesh sensor network (Temp, Hg, PAR, Soil T/H)• High resolution dendrometers on 20 trees
National Arboretum Sensor Array• 20-node Wireless mesh sensor network (Temp, Hg, PAR, Soil T/H)• High resolution dendrometers on 20 trees• (3) Gigapixel timelapse cameras: Leaf phenology for > 1,000 trees
National Arboretum Sensor Array• 20-node Wireless mesh sensor network (Temp, Hg, PAR, Soil T/H)• High resolution dendrometers on 20 trees• (3) Gigapixel timelapse cameras: Leaf phenology for > 1,000 trees• Sequence every tree on site for < $50 tree
National Arboretum Sensor Array• 20-node Wireless mesh sensor network (Temp, Hg, PAR, Soil T/H)• High resolution dendrometers on 20 trees• (3) Gigapixel timelapse cameras: Leaf phenology for > 1,000 trees• Sequence every tree on site for < $50 tree• 5 full weather stations
National Arboretum Sensor Array• 20-node Wireless mesh sensor network (Temp, Hg, PAR, Soil T/H)• High resolution dendrometers on 20 trees• (3) Gigapixel timelapse cameras: Leaf phenology for > 1,000 trees• Sequence every tree on site for < $50 tree• 5 full weather stations• All data live online in realtime
National Arboretum Sensor Array• 20-node Wireless mesh sensor network (Temp, Hg, PAR, Soil T/H)• High resolution dendrometers on 20 trees• (3) Gigapixel timelapse cameras: Leaf phenology for > 1,000 trees• Sequence every tree on site for < $50 tree• 5 full weather stations• All data live online in realtime• Annual LIDAR
National Arboretum Sensor Array• 20-node Wireless mesh sensor network (Temp, Hg, PAR, Soil T/H)• High resolution dendrometers on 20 trees• (3) Gigapixel timelapse cameras: Leaf phenology for > 1,000 trees• Sequence every tree on site for < $50 tree• 5 full weather stations• All data live online in realtime• Annual LIDAR • UAV overflights (monthly?)
• Georectified Google Earth/GIS image layers• 5mm resolution DEM/3D point cloud of site in time-series
National Arboretum Sensor Array• 20-node Wireless mesh sensor network (Temp, Hg, PAR, Soil T/H)• High resolution dendrometers on 20 trees• (3) Gigapixel timelapse cameras: Leaf phenology for > 1,000 trees• Sequence every tree on site for < $50 tree• 5 full weather stations• All data live online in realtime• Annual LIDAR • UAV overflights (monthly?)
• Georectified Google Earth/GIS image layers• 5mm resolution DEM/3D point cloud of site in time-series
Total Cost ~$200K
Who cares about data standards anyway?
Who cares about data standards anyway?
• Data management and synthesis is essential to doing science in the 21st century
Who cares about data standards anyway?
• Data management and synthesis is essential to doing science in the 21st century
• New technology lets us measure the world in unprecedented detail but it creates so much data we have to organize it better
Phenocams
Phenocam at Capitol Reef Field Station, Utah, USA (Live view: bit.ly/CRFS2)
What is a phenocam?
Richardson et al (2009), Near-surface remote sensing of spatial and temporal variation in canopy phenology, Ecological Applications, 19(6), 1417-1428.
What is a phenocam?• Phenology: Study of periodic plant and animal
life-cycle events and how these are influenced by seasonal and interannual variations in climate. (source: wikipedia)
Richardson et al (2009), Near-surface remote sensing of spatial and temporal variation in canopy phenology, Ecological Applications, 19(6), 1417-1428.
What is a phenocam?• Phenology: Study of periodic plant and animal
life-cycle events and how these are influenced by seasonal and interannual variations in climate. (source: wikipedia)
• Phenocam: Low-cost, automated, consumer digital camera for capturing environmental change in the field (A. Richardson: US PhenoCam network)
Richardson et al (2009), Near-surface remote sensing of spatial and temporal variation in canopy phenology, Ecological Applications, 19(6), 1417-1428.
What can you measure with phenocams?
What can you measure with phenocams?
Color-based vegetation change driven by biological response to environment or disturbance events (drought, herbivory, fire, etc)• Flowering, Leaf and bark color changes, canopy color
variation, grassland and understory greenup
What can you measure with phenocams?
Color-based vegetation change driven by biological response to environment or disturbance events (drought, herbivory, fire, etc)• Flowering, Leaf and bark color changes, canopy color
variation, grassland and understory greenup• Most used for monitoring temperate deciduous
forest and satellite validation.
What can you measure with phenocams?
Color-based vegetation change driven by biological response to environment or disturbance events (drought, herbivory, fire, etc)• Flowering, Leaf and bark color changes, canopy color
variation, grassland and understory greenup• Most used for monitoring temperate deciduous
forest and satellite validation. • Less work on vegetation types that don’t show
strong canopy-wide seasonal change such Australian dry/wet sclerophyll forests, grasslands, etc.
Phenocam Science• Characterize relation between environmental drivers and plant
response (data from co-located sensors: CO2 flux, microclimate, etc.)
Phenocam Science• Characterize relation between environmental drivers and plant
response (data from co-located sensors: CO2 flux, microclimate, etc.)
• Influence of seasonal plant cycles on ecosystem carbon budgets
Phenocam Science• Characterize relation between environmental drivers and plant
response (data from co-located sensors: CO2 flux, microclimate, etc.)
• Influence of seasonal plant cycles on ecosystem carbon budgets• Scaling of ground-based phenology to satellite (and back)
Phenocam Science• Characterize relation between environmental drivers and plant
response (data from co-located sensors: CO2 flux, microclimate, etc.)
• Influence of seasonal plant cycles on ecosystem carbon budgets• Scaling of ground-based phenology to satellite (and back)• Fractional cover of green vegetation (nadir cameras)
Phenocam Science• Characterize relation between environmental drivers and plant
response (data from co-located sensors: CO2 flux, microclimate, etc.)
• Influence of seasonal plant cycles on ecosystem carbon budgets• Scaling of ground-based phenology to satellite (and back)• Fractional cover of green vegetation (nadir cameras)• Leaf area index (upwards facing cameras).
Phenocam Science• Characterize relation between environmental drivers and plant
response (data from co-located sensors: CO2 flux, microclimate, etc.)
• Influence of seasonal plant cycles on ecosystem carbon budgets• Scaling of ground-based phenology to satellite (and back)• Fractional cover of green vegetation (nadir cameras)• Leaf area index (upwards facing cameras). • Flowering phenology
Phenocam Science• Characterize relation between environmental drivers and plant
response (data from co-located sensors: CO2 flux, microclimate, etc.)
• Influence of seasonal plant cycles on ecosystem carbon budgets• Scaling of ground-based phenology to satellite (and back)• Fractional cover of green vegetation (nadir cameras)• Leaf area index (upwards facing cameras). • Flowering phenology• Snow cover monitoring
Phenocam Science• Characterize relation between environmental drivers and plant
response (data from co-located sensors: CO2 flux, microclimate, etc.)
• Influence of seasonal plant cycles on ecosystem carbon budgets• Scaling of ground-based phenology to satellite (and back)• Fractional cover of green vegetation (nadir cameras)• Leaf area index (upwards facing cameras). • Flowering phenology• Snow cover monitoring • Capture Rare events
Phenocam Science• Characterize relation between environmental drivers and plant
response (data from co-located sensors: CO2 flux, microclimate, etc.)
• Influence of seasonal plant cycles on ecosystem carbon budgets• Scaling of ground-based phenology to satellite (and back)• Fractional cover of green vegetation (nadir cameras)• Leaf area index (upwards facing cameras). • Flowering phenology• Snow cover monitoring • Capture Rare events• Fire (occurrence and recovery)
Phenocam Science• Characterize relation between environmental drivers and plant
response (data from co-located sensors: CO2 flux, microclimate, etc.)
• Influence of seasonal plant cycles on ecosystem carbon budgets• Scaling of ground-based phenology to satellite (and back)• Fractional cover of green vegetation (nadir cameras)• Leaf area index (upwards facing cameras). • Flowering phenology• Snow cover monitoring • Capture Rare events• Fire (occurrence and recovery)• Identify outlier individuals for analysis/sequencing
Richardson, Klosterman, and Toomey. Near-Surface Sensor-Derived Phenology. (2013). In Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science. Springer Netherlands, 2013. 413-430.
Fall in Canberra, April 25, 2014
See the full panorama online here: bit.ly/CBR-TS
Fall in Canberra, April 25, 2014
See the full panorama online here: bit.ly/CBR-TS
Fall in Canberra, April 25, 2014
See the full panorama online here: bit.ly/CBR-TS
Why a working group?Everyone is installing cameras now because they are cheap
Why a working group?Everyone is installing cameras now because they are cheap• US standards are being developed (US PhenoCam
and NEON)
Why a working group?Everyone is installing cameras now because they are cheap• US standards are being developed (US PhenoCam
and NEON)BUT no global standards or global network
Why a working group?Everyone is installing cameras now because they are cheap• US standards are being developed (US PhenoCam
and NEON)BUT no global standards or global network• Non-US networks exist but limited data online.
Why a working group?Everyone is installing cameras now because they are cheap• US standards are being developed (US PhenoCam
and NEON)BUT no global standards or global network• Non-US networks exist but limited data online. • Lots of cameras at random field sites globally that
aren’t indexed
Why a working group?Everyone is installing cameras now because they are cheap• US standards are being developed (US PhenoCam
and NEON)BUT no global standards or global network• Non-US networks exist but limited data online. • Lots of cameras at random field sites globally that
aren’t indexed• No standards or data management plans for
Australia (yet)
Why a working group?Everyone is installing cameras now because they are cheap• US standards are being developed (US PhenoCam
and NEON)BUT no global standards or global network• Non-US networks exist but limited data online. • Lots of cameras at random field sites globally that
aren’t indexed• No standards or data management plans for
Australia (yet)• Non-deciduous forests are not well represented
2014 Workshop: Goals
2014 Workshop: Goals• Summarized cameras and existing data sets
• Preliminary analysis of 15 cameras around Australia• Mix of fixed internet-enabled cameras (flux towers), “game cameras”• Primary Contributors (camera data):
Alfredo Huete (Natalia Restrepo Coupe) Jason Berringer (Caitlin Moore) Supersite network (Myself, Mike Liddell)
2014 Workshop: Goals• Summarized cameras and existing data sets
• Preliminary analysis of 15 cameras around Australia• Mix of fixed internet-enabled cameras (flux towers), “game cameras”• Primary Contributors (camera data):
Alfredo Huete (Natalia Restrepo Coupe) Jason Berringer (Caitlin Moore) Supersite network (Myself, Mike Liddell)
• What data products can we create from Australian phenocams?
2014 Workshop: Goals• Summarized cameras and existing data sets
• Preliminary analysis of 15 cameras around Australia• Mix of fixed internet-enabled cameras (flux towers), “game cameras”• Primary Contributors (camera data):
Alfredo Huete (Natalia Restrepo Coupe) Jason Berringer (Caitlin Moore) Supersite network (Myself, Mike Liddell)
• What data products can we create from Australian phenocams?
• Metadata standards and long term storage• Ivan Hanigan (supersite manager) is primary lead on this
2014 Workshop: Goals• Summarized cameras and existing data sets
• Preliminary analysis of 15 cameras around Australia• Mix of fixed internet-enabled cameras (flux towers), “game cameras”• Primary Contributors (camera data):
Alfredo Huete (Natalia Restrepo Coupe) Jason Berringer (Caitlin Moore) Supersite network (Myself, Mike Liddell)
• What data products can we create from Australian phenocams?
• Metadata standards and long term storage• Ivan Hanigan (supersite manager) is primary lead on this
• Collect all existing camera data • Email me if you have cameras
(Preliminary) Results
(Preliminary) Results
• Whole forest analysis doesn’t yield much but looking at individuals is promising
(Preliminary) Results
• Whole forest analysis doesn’t yield much but looking at individuals is promising
• Track individual trees or groups of species (requires new tools)
(Preliminary) Results
• Whole forest analysis doesn’t yield much but looking at individuals is promising
• Track individual trees or groups of species (requires new tools)
• Green-up of understory
(Preliminary) Results
• Whole forest analysis doesn’t yield much but looking at individuals is promising
• Track individual trees or groups of species (requires new tools)
• Green-up of understory• Fire monitoring
(Preliminary) Results
• Whole forest analysis doesn’t yield much but looking at individuals is promising
• Track individual trees or groups of species (requires new tools)
• Green-up of understory• Fire monitoring• Grasslands and fields and other open areas
(Preliminary) Results
• Whole forest analysis doesn’t yield much but looking at individuals is promising
• Track individual trees or groups of species (requires new tools)
• Green-up of understory• Fire monitoring• Grasslands and fields and other open areas• Need better data:• Imagery is difficult enough to analyse: low quality images and
moving FOV make it harder• Timestamps inconsistent (GMT vs Local vs Daylight)• Large gaps in data
Outcomes: Recommendations
Outcomes: Recommendations• The image is the data! -- field of view (FOV) is your sample plot• You wouldn’t move your study plot at random every 6
months
Outcomes: Recommendations• The image is the data! -- field of view (FOV) is your sample plot• You wouldn’t move your study plot at random every 6
months• Need protocols and standards for hardware, data capture and
how data gets harvested
Outcomes: Recommendations• The image is the data! -- field of view (FOV) is your sample plot• You wouldn’t move your study plot at random every 6
months• Need protocols and standards for hardware, data capture and
how data gets harvested
• Also pay attention to how things are replaced, matching FOVs• Simple things like how you replace the batteries on a camera
can greatly impact data quality
Outcomes: Moving forward
Outcomes: Moving forward• Data Standards
Outcomes: Moving forward• Data Standards• Tools for managing the images (1000’s of images)
Outcomes: Moving forward• Data Standards• Tools for managing the images (1000’s of images)• Tools for analysing the data• What data products can provide from phenocam images?• TERN/Supersites/Flux sites are good for this since they have lots
of other stuff being measured• Less well characterized for Australian environments
Outcomes: Moving forward• Data Standards• Tools for managing the images (1000’s of images)• Tools for analysing the data• What data products can provide from phenocam images?• TERN/Supersites/Flux sites are good for this since they have
lots of other stuff being measured• Less well characterized for Australian environments
• Persistent storage
Outcomes: Moving forward• Data Standards• Tools for managing the images (1000’s of images)• Tools for analysing the data• What data products can provide from phenocam images?• TERN/Supersites/Flux sites are good for this since they have lots
of other stuff being measured• Less well characterized for Australian environments
• Persistent storage• Results sharing and tools that can synthesize the wider
network’s data and results
Outcomes: Moving forward• Data Standards• Tools for managing the images (1000’s of images)• Tools for analysing the data• What data products can provide from phenocam images?• TERN/Supersites/Flux sites are good for this since they have lots of
other stuff being measured• Less well characterized for Australian environments
• Persistent storage• Results sharing and tools that can synthesize the wider
network’s data and results• Collaborate with NEON/US PhenoCam Network• Also get EU, India, China, etc on board
Data sharing: Embargos and other challenges
Data sharing: Embargos and other challenges
• TERN, NEON, etc: data is designed to be public• Very important because it gives everyone a level playing field for
examining questions together
Data sharing: Embargos and other challenges
• TERN, NEON, etc: data is designed to be public• Very important because it gives everyone a level playing field for
examining questions together
• But, for many other sources of data there are (may be) good reasons for it to be proprietary• Data costs money! • People need to get credit for creating quality data sets
Initial credit in publications Citation credit for the data itself if you create a good dataset
Data sharing: Embargos and other challenges
• TERN, NEON, etc: data is designed to be public• Very important because it gives everyone a level playing field for
examining questions together
• But, for many other sources of data there are (may be) good reasons for it to be proprietary• Data costs money! • People need to get credit for creating quality data sets
Initial credit in publications Citation credit for the data itself if you create a good dataset
• Providing resources and tools that create standardized data and streamline analysis benefit everyone• Private datasets can be easily pushed to the public when ready
Thanks to all the workshop participants
Photo: Yu Liu (CERN)
Credits & Thanks
Justin Borevitz and the Borevitz Lab, ANU
2014 ACEAS Phenocam Workshop participants
Funding - ACEAS: Phenocam workshop - FNQ Camera (TERN) - NEON/NSF: US Phenocam Workshop - NCRIS: Phenocam camera server - ANU Major Equipment Grant: National Arboretum sensor array
Email me your phenocam info: [email protected]
Find me here: bit.ly/Tim_ANUOr Google: Tim Brown anu
Borevitz Lab: borevitzlab.anu.edu.au