BGS Hosted Metadata
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
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/5a3972cf97ef749479738d9ed16db73f
- Citation identifier
- NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) / 5a3972cf97ef749479738d9ed16db73f
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Landmap
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Author QinetiQ
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Author NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)
Custodian NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)
Distributor NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)
pointofContact NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)
Publisher
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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orthoimagery
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- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Restricted data: please submit an application using the REQUEST ACCESS link for access.
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- Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- 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
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Name Version 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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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/5a3972cf97ef749479738d9ed16db73f CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Protocol Linkage Name http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/landmap/data/radar/ers DOWNLOAD
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Protocol Linkage Name https://www.qinetiq.com/Pages/default.aspx The website for QinetiQ
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Protocol Linkage Name http://www.neodc.rl.ac.uk/conditions/landmap.html Landmap terms of use
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Protocol Linkage Name http://www.crisp.nus.edu.sg/ers/ers.html Detailed information about the ERS satellites and their SARs
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Protocol Linkage Name https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/missions/esa-operational-eo-missions/ers The ESA ERS website
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Protocol Linkage Name https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/data-access/products-typology/radar-imagery/ ESA information on SAR imagery
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Protocol Linkage Name https://zenodo.org/record/7356924/files/RSS_2000_GPS_paperV2.pdf GPS Validation of IfSAR Digital Elevation Models from LANDMAP
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Protocol Linkage Name https://zenodo.org/record/7356927/files/RSS00_KK.pdf LANDMAP: Serving Satellite imagery to the UK academic Community
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Protocol Linkage Name https://zenodo.org/record/7356931/files/RSS00_IJD_paperV2.pdf Planimetric Quality Assurance of the LANDMAP mosaic: methods and results
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Protocol Linkage Name https://zenodo.org/record/7356935/files/RSS00_JPM_paperV1.pdf 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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Conformance result
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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Data collected and prepared by the Landmap team before a copy of the data were obtained by NEODC directly from Landmap.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 5a3972cf97ef749479738d9ed16db73f XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Parent identifier
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Landmap: Radar Earth Observation Collection
47edf6f8790da0ebb5080feb810a630e
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-03-09T03:03:17
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)
Point of contact
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