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Heard Island - Ground Control Point Identification on 4 satellite images

Entry ID: heard_satimage_control

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Summary

Abstract: Ground control points were captured in the field as described in the metadata record "Global change, biodiversity and conservation in terrestrial and coastal ecosystems on Heard and McDonald Islands [ASAC_1181]". The aim of this project was to identify the control points on various satellite images (AADC Image IDs 253, 267, 446 and 447) to determine image coordinates for the control points. These would then allow the satellite image to be adjusted to the ground control. There is a shapefile for each image with the features in the shapefile moved to the corresponding image location. Attributes in the shapefile include image coordinates (UTM43) and control point coordinates.

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Link: GET DATA

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Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: -52.95

S: -53.05

E: 73.41

W: 73.23

Parent DIF

This data set description is a member of a collection. The collection is described in
ASAC_1181

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2003-01-17

Stop Date: 2005-02-09

Location Keywords

OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS

Data Resolution

Latitude Resolution: 1 m
Longitude Resolution: 1 m

Science Keywords

BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > FOREST COMPOSITION/VEGETATION STRUCTURE

BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION

HUMAN DIMENSIONS > BOUNDARIES > BOUNDARY SURVEYS

SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS > VISIBLE IMAGERY

ISO Topic Category

IMAGERY/BASE MAPS/EARTH COVER

Platform

SATELLITES

Instrument

GPS > Global Positioning System

GPS RECEIVERS

Quality Ground control points were captured in the field by Dr Jenny Scott using differential GPS as described in
"Global change, biodiversity and conservation in terrestrial and coastal ecosystems on Heard and McDonald Islands [ASAC_1181]".
David Smith of the AAD Data Centre provided a shapefile called control_pts_UTM43 which had been exported from the differentially corrected GPS data.
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Use Constraints This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=heard_sa... when using these data.

Ancillary Keywords

Ground Control

Satellites

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Data Center

Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia

Data Center URL: http://data.aad.gov.au

Data Center Personnel
Name: DATA OFFICER AADC Phone: +61 3 6232 3244 Fax: +61 3 6232 3351 Email: metadata at aad.gov.au Contact Address: Australian Antarctic Division 203 Channel Highway City: Kingston Province or State: Tasmania Postal Code: 7050 Country: Australia

Distribution

Distribution Media: HTTP

Distribution Size: 585 kb

Distribution Format: shapefiules, pdf, text

Fees: free

Personnel

HENK BROLSMA

Role: INVESTIGATOR

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Role: DIF AUTHOR

Phone: +61 3 6232 3528

Fax: +61 3 6232 3351

Email: mapping at aad.gov.au

Contact Address:

Australian Antarctic Division

203 Channel Highway

City: Kingston

Province or State: Tasmania

Postal Code: 7050

Country: Australia

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2009-05-22

Last DIF Revision Date: 2012-11-06

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