Using TERN’s Multi-Scale research infrastructure to inform on global challenges.

This presentation will investigate TERN Australia’s Multi-scaled structure and detail examples how the combination of data collected across a range of observation scales enable Australia’s Ecological Research Infrastructure to make significant contribution to a range of global endeavours. Examples of our national standard field data collection methods are enabling Australia’s ecological community to collect consistent information across the continent on a range of EBV’s that can easily feed into global synthesis, and briefly detail how that enabled an accuracy assessment of a global investigation of forests in drylands. It will also demonstrate how these field programs, combined with our highly instrumented flux sites, and our globally unique continental Dronescape program provide critical key information that is key to a range of international Cal Val activities, with a specific example being provided of the input of all of this data to the global GeoTrees initiative, and how they help validate a range of global image products. Together these programs, and the training programs associated with them (often with international participants) provides a key Australian contribution to a collaborative and compatible global approach to environmental research infrastructure.