Land cover of Signy Island, consisting of rock outcrop, moraine, lakes, permanent ice and streams, digitised from February 2020 satellite imagery

Land cover of Signy Island, consisting of rock outcrop, moraine, lakes, permanent ice and streams. All data were manually digitised from a VHR (very high resolution) satellite image acquired on the 10th February 2020. WorldView-2 satellite image (c) 2020 Maxar Technologies.

The datasets are available as polygon and point shapefiles and GeoPackages.

The data were created to support the updated release of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Signy Island map (BAS, 2024)

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Alternate title
Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01923
Date (Publication)
2024-10-29
Identifier
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01923
Custodian
  British Antarctic Survey
High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
Originator
  NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre - Gerrish, L., & Ireland, L.
High Cross, Madingley , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
Maintenance and update frequency
unknown Unknown
Keywords
  • NDGO0001
NERC OAI Harvesting
  • NERC_DDC
GCMD Parameter Valids
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Land Use/Land Cover
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Land Surface > Land Use/Land Cover > Land Cover
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Solid Earth > Rocks/Minerals
BAS Free-text keywords
  • Signy Island
  • South Orkney Islands
  • lakes
  • land cover
  • rock outcrop
Use limitation
Data supplied under Open Government Licence v3.0 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
Data supplied under Open Government Licence v3.0 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Geoscientific information
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
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Begin date
2020-02-10
End date
2020-02-10
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution format
Distributor
  Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
OnLine resource
GET DATA ( http )
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset

Domain consistency

Measure identification
INSPIRE / Conformity_001

Conformance result

Date
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Pass
No
Statement
The data has been manually interpreted and may contain misinterpretations. The data creator used their best knowledge of the island and with some assistance from those who have visited the island in recent years, but there may still be some errors.
File identifier
GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01923 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2024-10-29
Metadata standard name
NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
Dataset URI
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01923
 
 

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