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Accessing data from the Field Campaign

All the data from the Field Campaign are available from the NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) subject to terms and conditions agreed between NCAVEO and NEODC. The datasets available are listed in the Tables below.

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1. Remotely Sensed Data

	Sensor	Date of survey dd/mm/yy	Operator	Spectral region No. of bands / Pixel size	Summary of data and pre-processing
1	CHRIS/Proba	17/06/06	SSTL/ESA	VNIR 62 bands / 34 m	Multiple view angle superspectral data. Registered to the British National Grid using ground control points.
2	UK-DMC	17/06/06	SSTL	VNIR 3 bands / 32 m	Wide swath multispectral data. UK-DMC has an estimated radiometric accuracy of ±5%, AlSat and Nigeria-Sat have been cross-calibrated with UK-DMC using an image-based method.
3	AlSat	14/07/06	SSTL	VNIR 3 bands / 32 m
4	Nigeria-Sat	13/06/06	SSTL	VNIR 3 bands / 32 m
5	SPOT-5 HRG	10/06/06	CNES	VNIR/SWIR 4 bands /10 m/20 m	Registered to the British National Grid using ground control points.
6	CASI-2™	17/06/06	NERC	VNIR 15 bands / 2.5 m	Nine flightlines acquired using an Itres Instruments Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager. Registered to the British National Grid using data from on-board sensors.
7	CASI-3™	17/06/06	EA	VNIR 32 bands / 1 m	Nine flightlines acquired using an Itres Instruments Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager. Registered to the British National Grid using data from on-board sensors.
8	Specim AISA Eagle™	17/06/06	NERC	VNIR 244 bands / 1 m	Nine flightlines acquired. Registered to the British National Grid using data from on-board sensors.
9	Rollei AIC Modular LS™ digital camera	17/06/06	EA	RGB 3 bands / 1 m	Nine flightlines acquired. Registered to the British National Grid using data from on-board sensors.
10	Integraph Z/I Imaging DMC™	09/06/06	OS	VNIR 4 bands / 60 cm	Digital Mapping Camera. Orthorectified to the British National Grid using photogrammetric methods. 84 images acquired with 60% overlap along track.
11	Optech ALTM 2033™ LiDAR	17/06/06	EA	1064 nm 1m	2km x 2km tiles of digital terrain model and digital surface model. First and last pulse returns were recorded, using an approximate pulse spacing of 1-2 metres.

2. Ground Data

	Variable	Date of survey dd/mm/yy	Summary of data and pre-processing
1	Land cover [Overview / LCM2007]	April/May 2006	Complete coverage of the test area 9km x 6km and sampled observations from a co-located 60 km x 60 km area as part of the CEH Land Cover 2007 Pilot Project.
2	Leaf Area Index (barley, oats, wheat & oilseed rape) [LAI2000 / SunScan]	June 2006	50 LAI-2000 measurements per field, 150 SunScan measurements per field.
3	Vegetation canopy structure	June 2006	Several upward and downward looking hemispherical photographs from the sample fields and Harewood Forest.
4	Leaf chlorophyll content	June 2006	Ten replicates at each of 20 random locations in the spring barley field.
5	River survey (River Test)	16/06/06	Measurements at selected point locations. River bed material type also noted.
6	Aerosol Optical Thickness (AOT) and total atmospheric water vapour [Cimel / Microtops]	17/06/06	Measurements every 15 minutes from two Cimel CE318-2™ sun photometers, one of which is part of AERONET, and every 5 minutes from three Microtops™ II sun photometers.
7	Atmospheric water vapour profile	16/06/06	UV Raman LiDAR located at CFARR.
8	Sky spectral irradiance distribution and Sky animation	17/06/06	Sampling interval 18° in zenith and 30° in azimuth. Frequent sets of measurements made during the period of RS data collection (VNIR).
9	Proportion of direct-to-diffuse sky irradiance	17/06/06	Measurements every minute using a Delta-T BF2™ sunshine sensor.
10	Hemispherical-conical reflectance factor (HCRF)	17/06/06	Measurements of an asphalt ground calibration target every 30 s using a dual-beam GER1500 spectroradiometer (VNIR).
11	HCRF	17/06/06	Measurements of a concrete ground calibration target every minute using a single-beam GER3700 spectroradiometer (VNIR/SWIR).
12	HCRF	17/06/06	Reflectance of white, grey and black artificial targets 6 m x 6 m in size placed on the ground at the CFARR site (VNIR).
13	HCRF Winter wheat Winter oats Oilseed rape Spring barley	15/06/06 to 18/06/06	Reflectance of the crop at each of the LAI-2000 sample points, made using two ASD FieldSpec Pro™ spectroradiometers operated in single beam mode (VNIR/SWIR).
14	HCRF	18/06/06	Reflectance of bare soil within one of the fields sampled (Brockley), made using an ASD FieldSpec Pro™ spectroradiometer operated in single beam mode (VNIR/SWIR).

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Last updated 26/09/2008