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

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.

Spatial representation type: grid Grid

Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Topic category

Imagery base maps earth cover

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