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GA Barest Earth (Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS)
GA Barest Earth (Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS)
A `weighted geometric median’ approach has been used to estimate the median surface reflectance of the barest state (i.e., least vegetation) observed through Landsat-8 OLI observations from 2013 to September 2018 to generate a six-band Landsat-8 Barest Earth pixel composite mosaic over the Australian continent.
The bands include BLUE (0.452 - 0.512), GREEN (0.533 - 0.590), RED, (0.636 - 0.673) NIR (0.851 - 0.879), SWIR1 (1.566 - 1.651) and SWIR2 (2.107 - 2.294) wavelength regions. The weighted median approach is robust to outliers (such as cloud, shadows, saturation, corrupted pixels) and also maintains the relationship between all the spectral wavelengths in the spectra observed through time. The product reduces the influence of vegetation and allows for more direct mapping of soil and rock mineralogy.
Reference: Dale Roberts, John Wilford, and Omar Ghattas (2018). Revealing the Australian Continent at its Barest, submitted.
Mosaics are available for the following years:
Landsat 8: 2013 to 2017;
For service status information, see https://status.dea.ga.gov.au
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- As needed
- Keywords (Theme)
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- mangrove
- australia
- geomedian
- WOfS
- time-series
- landsat
- HLTC
- bare-earth
- burn characteristics
- NIDEM
- fractional-cover
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- World
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- no conditions apply
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- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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- English
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ls8_barest_earth_mosaic
GA Barest Earth (Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS)
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- urn:uuid/4dc646e658f4a8a011431095082648a63d1f54a8
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- English
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- anyValidURI
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- Complete Metadata
- Metadata linkage
- http://portal.auscope.org/geonetwork/srv/api/records/177abe2c-9efe-4fd2-a66e-0f1e099c3047
- Date info (Revision)
- 2022-10-25T02:20:38
- Date info (Creation)
- 2024-01-22T22:38:13
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3
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