Data Availability

Datasets for the NCAVEO field experiment available to participants of the experiment through the NEODC archive include:

Validation Site Details

Polygon shapefile showing the field boundaries and an attribute table containing the field names, the owner name and the type of crop growing in each field. Source: NCAVEO

Polygon shapefile showing the study area boundaries. Source: NCAVEO

OS coordinates of sites. Source: NCAVEO

Landsat Images:

Both images resized to the study area and exported as geotiff using bands 4,5, and 3 as RGB.

Landsat TM Image (12th June 1992). Source: MIMAS archive

Landsat ETM+ Image 12th May 2001. Source: GLCF

Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) Land Cover Map 2000 (LCM2000) Data 1

25 m derived raster format and Level 2 vector format

NEXTMap Digital Elevation Model 2

Field Measurements

Leaf Area Index measurements by LAI2000 and SunScan instruments

Reflectance Spectra of Spring Barley from field Brockley

Microtops sunphotometer data

Hemispherical photos

Field Spectroscopy Facility Calibration Files

Reflectance Reference Panel Calibration and Spectroradiometer Wavelength Verification Files. Source: NERC FSF

CHRIS Proba Data

L1b data. Source: Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd/ESA

L3b data (destriped and registered to the OS grid). Source: NCAVEO

Environment Agency Airborne Data:

Digital photography

CASI data

LiDAR data

1 See here for details and application for access to the LCM2000 data

2 Available through NEODC to NERC staff and award holders only. See here for details and application for access to NEXTMap data

Available elsewhere:

SSSI data: The dataset for Chilbolton can be downloaded from English Nature as follows:

register for the service

select the option to download SSI data. Data are delivered based on 100 km squares. The study area is covered by the Ordnance Survey tile SU.

OS Map data: 1:25000 OS Colour Raster, available from Digimap (Edina service) to registered users

If you have further relevant datasets to contribute to this project, please contact NEODC.

Aerial photograph: Chilbolton dish (source: CCLRC (now STFC) website)