Advanced Visible and Near InfraRed Radiometer type 2 (AVNIR 2) UK data

The Advanced Visible and Near InfraRed 4-band Radiometer type-2 (AVNIR-2) is a visible and near infrared 4-band radiometer offering 10m spatial resolution optical imagery that is often used for land and coastal earth observation applications. AVNIR-2 is on board the Japanese earth observation Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) and was developed by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The data were acquired by the Landmap project from ESA, and are available for large areas of the Republic of Ireland and small areas of Scotland and England, for 2007 to 2008. 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: ESA 2004/2005/2006/2007/2008…. Received and Distributed by University of Manchester under licence from the European Space Agency.

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Date (Publication)
2014-07-29T12:32:35
Date (Creation)
2014-07-29T12:32:35
Citation identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/bbdbb4e5ef063592ad8f3288f8441569
Citation identifier
NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) / bbdbb4e5ef063592ad8f3288f8441569
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Landmap

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 		Author

European Space Agency (ESA)

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 		Author

NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)

neodc@rl.ac.uk

Custodian

NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)

neodc@rl.ac.uk

Distributor

NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)

neodc@rl.ac.uk

pointofContact

NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)

neodc@rl.ac.uk

Publisher
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
Update scope
Dataset
Keywords

  • Not defined

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • orthoimagery
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Restricted data: please submit an application using the REQUEST ACCESS link for access.
Use constraints
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
Language
English
Topic category
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
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Begin date
2006-01-24T00:00:00
End date
2011-05-11T23:00:00
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
Name Version

Data availability and file format

The data are archived in the directory structure of region/year/data type/data for ease of use. Full Colour Composition (FCC), True Colour Composition (TCC) and Full Composite (FC) data are available as GeoTiff files which can be opened by most Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Image Processors (IP) such as the freely available Basic ERS & Envisat (A)ATSR and Meris Toolbox (BEAM) or Erdas ER viewer. 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. FCC data comprises of bands 4, 3 and 2, TCC of 3, 2 and 1 and FC of all bands. Metadata, in the form of aux, rrd and tfw files, are contained in the same folders as the data. The tfw files are GeoTiff World Files which are used to geo-reference images to an appropriate projection scheme.

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)

neodc@rl.ac.uk

Distributor
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/bbdbb4e5ef063592ad8f3288f8441569

CEDA Data Catalogue Page
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/landmap/data/optical/avnir2

DOWNLOAD
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/missions/3rd-party-missions/historical-missions/alos/instruments/avnir-2

The AVNIR-2 page at ESA
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/ALOS/en/about/avnir2.htm

Earth Observation Research Center (EORC) details about ALOS and AVNIR-2
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://www.alos-restec.jp/en/staticpages/index.php/aboutalos

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) details about ALOS
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://www.neodc.rl.ac.uk/conditions/landmap.html

Landmap terms of use
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Title

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

Data collected and prepared by the Landmap team before a copy of the data were obtained by NEODC directly from Landmap.

Metadata

File identifier
bbdbb4e5ef063592ad8f3288f8441569 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Parent identifier
Landmap: Optical Earth Observation Collection

b918b02c3c2c55391f51e8465bd7621f
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2026-02-05T03:03:07
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)

neodc@rl.ac.uk

Point of contact
 
 

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery


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