Optical Collection
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for a demo on how to download a specific data type. To download optical data you will need your username and password allocated by your institution to authenticate.
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Modern Aerial Photography Excellent resource for high resolution land cover/ land use data. Covers the main connurbations of the UK. Available for download from Landmap Kaia soon |
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Historic Aerial Photography Excellent temporal coverage data from Luftwaffe. Now available for download from Landmap Kaia |
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Colour Infrared Acquired from Bluesky providing information about vegetation health and vegetation type. Now available for download from Landmap Kaia |
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TopSat datasets cover global locations viewable in Google Earth. Acquisitions began in November 2007 and ended in August 2009 Download through Datasets section of Landmap website |
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SPOT Useful for academic, researchers and students who want to monitor and map in the disciplines of agricultural studies, forestry, land cover and land use, geology, hydrology, coastal resources, environmental studies and topographic map projection. Data acquired 1995 - 1996. Download through Datasets section of Landmap website or using Landmap Kaia |
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Landsat 7 is useful for academics, researchers and students who want to observe global change, mass balance, cloud and aerosol height, as well as land topography and vegetation characteristics including monitoring and large area mapping. Data acquired 1999 - 2001. |
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Landsat 4/5 useful for academics, researchers and students who want to monitor and analyse different types of soil, vegetation, classifying forests and land cover applications. Data acquired 1988 - 1992 Download through Datasets section of Landmap website or using Landmap Kaia |
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Mediterranean Landsat datasets cover Cyprus, East and West Spain and consist of Landsat 7 colour and panchromatic data, kindly donated by academic institutions. Download through Datasets section of Landmap website |
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MERIS Acquired from the ENVISAT spacecraft and is useful for weather monitoring and oceanography available upon request. Some select scenes will be available for download in May 2010. |
