Dataset
BACI: System State Vector (SSV) land surface time series dataset for the Hainich fast track site, 2000-2015, v1.0
Abstract
The BACI Surface State Vector (SSV) dataset for the Hainich forested hill chain in the state of Thuringia in Germany and provides a description of the surface state from a combination of satellite observations across wavelength domains i.e. albedo (visible), Land Surface Temperature (LST) (passive/thermal microwave) and backscatter (active microwave). The dataset contains a unique spatially and temporally consistent (as far as the observations allow) series of observations of the land surface, across optical and microwave domains. The innovation of this approach is in providing a SSV in a common space/time framework, containing information from multiple, independent data streams, with associated uncertainty. The methods used can be used to combine data from multiple different satellite sources. The resulting dataset is intended to make the best use of all available observations to detect changes in the land surface state: the combination of data is likely to show changes that would not be apparent from data in a single wavelength region. The inclusion of uncertainty also allows the strength of the resulting changes to be properly quantified.
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Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence(s): http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. |
| Data lineage: |
Provided by Mathias Disney of the University College London BACI project team to CEDA for publication |
| Data Quality: |
BACI data validated by Maxim Chernetskiy UCL project team
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netCDF version 4
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Process overview
| Title | BACI State Surface Vector Computation (SSV) |
| Abstract | The main requirement for BACI SSV dataset was to provide frequent time series of remote sensing information in different domains of electromagnetic spectrum covering largest possible regions. It was important to have data which allows change detection to be as precise as possible without attribution. The dataset combines layers of optical, thermal infrared and microwave data providing comprehensive set of information. The process used MODIS reflectance, MODIS land surface temperature and Sentinel-1 VV/VH backscatter. It also employed linear Kernel BRDF models to normalise reflectance to nadir view. i.e.and an inversion of the Kernel models to obtain kernels and then it is easy to calculate reflectance at nadir. In the case of thermal and SAR information the process used identity operator i.e. smoother to fill gaps and estimate uncertainty. This allows minimum loss of information and makes data sets compatible. Inputs to the BACI SSV are MODIS daily reflectance and LST data, Sentinel 1 backscatter and historical microwave (ENVISAT ASAR). A key innovation of the BACI SSV processing chain is the use of the multitasking facilities of CEMS/JASMIN cluster to process almost 20 years of EO data across domains . |
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| Software Reference | None |
- var_id: date_jul
- var_id: date_jul_obs
- units: string representation of date: yyyy.mm.dd
- var_id: date_str
- var_id: geo_transform
- units: Julian day
- var_id: julday
- var_id: lat
- units: latitude
- var_id: lon
- units: longitude
- var_id: lst
- var_id: lst_orig
- var_id: lst_orig_sd
- var_id: lst_sd
- var_id: proj
Co-ordinate Variables
Temporal Range
2000-01-01T00:00:00
2015-12-31T00:00:00
Geographic Extent
52.0000° |
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10.0000° |
11.0000° |
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51.0000° |