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European Remote Sensing (ERS) Satellites 1 & 2 UK radar data

Active Microwave Instrument - Synthetic Aperture Radar (AMI-SAR) data from the European Remote-Sensing satellites 1 and 2 between 1995 and 1999 were acquired by the Landmap project from QinetiQ and are available for large areas of the UK. Data from the individual satellites are available, but also coherence images from when both satellites were operational and orbiting in tandem, which show the difference between two images in the time between both satellites passing over (around 1 day). The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) funded Landmap service which ran from 2001 to July 2014 collected and hosted a large amount of earth observation data for the majority of the UK. After removal of JISC funding in 2013, the Landmap service is no longer operational, with the data now held at the NEODC.

When using these data please also add the following copyright statement: Original ERS data ERS data copyright ESA 1999/2000 (year of acquisition). Received and Distributed by QinetiQ under licence from the European Space Agency

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Date (Publication)
2014-08-18T13:17:56
Date (Creation)
2014-08-18T13:17:56
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/5a3972cf97ef749479738d9ed16db73f
Identifier
NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) / 5a3972cf97ef749479738d9ed16db73f
Author
  Landmap - author
Author
  QinetiQ - author
United Kingdom
Custodian
  NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) - custodian
NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
Distributor
  NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) - distributor
NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
pointofContact
  NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) - point_of_contact
NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
Publisher
  NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) - publisher
NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned Not planned
Update scope
dataset Dataset
Keywords
  • Not defined
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • orthoimagery
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
Restricted data: please submit an application using the REQUEST ACCESS link for access.
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/landmap.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under academic and specific 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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Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
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Begin date
1995-01-01T00:00:00
End date
1999-12-31T00:00:00
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
  • Data availability and file format

    Data are available in ecw (Enhanced Compression Wavelet) and geotiff formats which can be opened in many earth observation image processing software including open/free software such as Erdas ER viewer and the freely available Basic ERS & Envisat (A)ATSR and Meris Toolbox (BEAM) or NEST (Next ESA SAR Toolbox). Geotiff files are TIFF files which have geographic metadata embedded as tags within the TIFF file. The geographic metadata can then be used to position the image in the correct location and geometry on the screen of a geographic information display. ecw files are compressed images. The data are split into three folders: coherence, ers1 and ers2 and then by region and format. Metadata containing precise location information are available with their respective files.

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Distributor
  NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) - Data Center Contact
NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
OnLine resource
CEDA Data Catalogue Page

Detail and access information for the resource

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The website for QinetiQ

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Landmap terms of use

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Detailed information about the ERS satellites and their SARs

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The ESA ERS website

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ESA information on SAR imagery

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GPS Validation of IfSAR Digital Elevation Models from LANDMAP

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LANDMAP: Serving Satellite imagery to the UK academic Community

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Planimetric Quality Assurance of the LANDMAP mosaic: methods and results

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The LANDMAP project for the automated creation and validation of multiresolution orthorectified satellite image products and a 1"€ DEM of the British Isles from ERS tandem SAR interferometry

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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
Data collected and prepared by the Landmap team before a copy of the data were obtained by NEODC directly from Landmap.
File identifier
5a3972cf97ef749479738d9ed16db73f XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
Parent identifier
Landmap: Radar Earth Observation Collection 47edf6f8790da0ebb5080feb810a630e
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-11-15T03:02:57
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)
NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
 
 

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