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Two-metre resolution land cover classification of the Akrotiri Peninsular, Cyprus from WorldView imagery 2018
This dataset contains land cover classification of the Akrotiri Peninsular of Cyprus, using WorldView Imagery at 2m resolution. Images from March 2018 and July 2018 were used. All the imagery was atmospherically corrected. The thematic detail of the map was generalised to the following main vegetation/cover types: bare, lake, temporary water, salt marsh, rush salt meadow, garrigue, sparse vegetation, grass, mixed woodland, Eucalyptus and Acacia. The cover classes salt marsh and rush salt meadow represent mosaics of vegetation communities. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, ground data collection was severely restricted, resulting in limited training and validation data. This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/95ab2233-ed8d-4c32-b82c-ae282ba567f7
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- Date (Publication)
- 2021-09-29
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/95ab2233-ed8d-4c32-b82c-ae282ba567f7
- Citation identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/95ab2233-ed8d-4c32-b82c-ae282ba567f7
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George, C.T., Gerard, F.F., Peyton, J.M., Pescott, O.L. (2021). Two-metre resolution land cover classification of the Akrotiri Peninsular, Cyprus from WorldView imagery 2018. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/95ab2233-ed8d-4c32-b82c-ae282ba567f7
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology George, C.T. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Gerard, F.F. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Peyton, J.M. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Pescott, O.L. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology George, C.
Point of contact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Owner
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Land Cover
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GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3
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- Land cover
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Cyprus
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Akrotiri
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UK-SCAPE
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Salt lake
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- no limitations
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Maxar Products. WorldView-2 © 2018 Maxar Technologies
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Maxar Products. WorldView-3 © 2018 Maxar Technologies
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: George, C.T., Gerard, F.F., Peyton, J.M., Pescott, O.L. (2021). Two-metre resolution land cover classification of the Akrotiri Peninsular, Cyprus from WorldView imagery 2018. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/95ab2233-ed8d-4c32-b82c-ae282ba567f7
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- Vector
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- 2 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
- Begin date
- 2018-03-03
- End date
- 2018-07-06
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- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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Name Version TIFF
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/95ab2233-ed8d-4c32-b82c-ae282ba567f7 Download the data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/95ab2233-ed8d-4c32-b82c-ae282ba567f7.zip Supporting information
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dataset
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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
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- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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Data was generated using the ENVI Example Based Feature Extraction tool, from the following satellite images: WorldView-3 (WV-3) 1.2m multispectral (8 wavelength bands) from 3rd March 2018 and WorldView-2 (WV-2) 2.0m multispectral (8 wavelength bands) from 6th July 2018. The July imagery was a single image covering the whole Akrotiri peninsular, while the March imagery consisted of two images (east and west of peninsular) originating from different swaths, each with a different viewing angle. All the imagery was atmospherically corrected using the ENVI FLAASH software. For both east and west, the July and March imagery were resampled to ensure consistency in spatial resolution and combined into a single 2m 16 wavelength band image stack. The classification was validated using google maps and local knowledge due to COVID-19 restricting ground data collection.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 95ab2233-ed8d-4c32-b82c-ae282ba567f7 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13T16:18:39
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
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