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Regularised optical, thermal and backscatter land surface System State Vector (SSV) time series data collection from the BACI ( Towards a Biosphere Atmosphere Change Index) project.

The BACI System State Vector datasets cover large regional sites in Europe, West, Eastern and Southern Africa in addition to smaller fast track sites in Denmark, Wytham Forest, Kruger National Park, Hainich, Viterbo, Romania, Slovenia, Ethiopia and Southern/Central/Northern Somalia.

The BACI datasets address one of main complications in combining different Earth Observation (EO) data streams is a requirement of common time and space resolution. These data are gap free time series, of EO data across optical (reflectance, albedo), passive microwave (LST) and active microwave (backscatter) domains. This collection contains optimally smoothed and filtered time series of reflectance, albedo and backscatter datasets, starting in 2000 and running to the present, as the core SSV output.

Crucially, the SSV data is provided with consistent uncertainties, which is key for use in downstream quantitative modelling and change detection applications, particularly to help attribute and explain detected change. Changes in the Earth’s surface can have very different properties and so can influence very different domains of the electromagnetic spectrum. As a result these datasets are particularly useful for trying to detect changes in ecosystem structure and function, a potentially vital application for satellite monitoring of the Earth system.

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Date (Publication)
2019-10-08T15:40:09
Date (Creation)
2019-10-08T15:40:09
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/1452fa13390549f5a6794840b948a8d1
Identifier
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 1452fa13390549f5a6794840b948a8d1
Author
  Unavailable - Disney, Mathias ( author )
Custodian
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - custodian
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Distributor
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - distributor
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
pointofContact
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - point_of_contact
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Publisher
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Maintenance and update frequency
unknown Unknown
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series Series
Keywords
  • BACI
  • Biodiversity
  • long time series
  • State Surface Vector
  • land surface temperature
  • backscatter
  • albedo
  • uncertainty
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • atmospheric conditions
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Other constraints
Under the following licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
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Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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2000-01-01T00:00:00
End date
2015-12-31T00:00:00
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
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Distributor
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - Data Center Contact
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
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File identifier
1452fa13390549f5a6794840b948a8d1 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
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series Series
Hierarchy level name
series
Date stamp
2025-11-15T03:28:05
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

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