Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar ground motion and timeseries data over the Flow Country, Caithness and Sutherland, March 2015-July 2019
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Marshall, C.; Large, D.J.; Andersen, R.; Bradley, A.W.; Sowter, A.; Gilbert, P.; Sterk, H.P.; Marsh, S. (2021). Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar ground motion and timeseries data over the Flow Country, Caithness and Sutherland, March 2015-July 2019. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/7c2778bf-b498-4ba2-b8cb-60a2081e5ba7
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The datasets contain Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) measurements carried out over Caithness and Sutherland in order to measure peatland surface motion over the Flow Country using the Advanced Pixel System Intermittent Small Baseline Subset InSAR technique (APSIS InSAR). The data covers surface motion across all landcover types within the survey area. It includes timeseries of peat surface height and long term mean motion over the survey period. Data was collected on a 6-12 day basis from 12/3/2015-7/7/2019. Missing pixels are associated with low coherence and are excluded. Missing survey dates are associated with processing issues or poor coherence. Data processing was carried out by Terra Motion Ltd.
Publication date: 2021-10-12
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Format
TIFF
Spatial information
Study area
Spatial representation type
Vector
Spatial reference system
WGS84 UTM Zone 29N
Temporal information
Temporal extent
2015-03-12 to 2019-07-07
Provenance & quality
All data were generated by the authors. InSAR measurements were made using a Maximum horizontal baseline was restricted to 250m with maximum temporal separation of 1 year using a coherence threshold of 0.25 and point threshold of 360. Motion was measured relative to a stable reference point at Wick Airport (58.4533° N, 3.0879° W). Data was checked in house by Terra Motion Ltd during and after processing.
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This dataset is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
Cite this dataset as:
Marshall, C.; Large, D.J.; Andersen, R.; Bradley, A.W.; Sowter, A.; Gilbert, P.; Sterk, H.P.; Marsh, S. (2021). Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar ground motion and timeseries data over the Flow Country, Caithness and Sutherland, March 2015-July 2019. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/7c2778bf-b498-4ba2-b8cb-60a2081e5ba7
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Citations
Marshall, C., Sterk, H.P., Gilbert, P.J., Andersen, R., Bradley, A.V., Sowter, A., Marsh, S., & Large, D.J.(2022). Multiscale Variability and the Comparison of Ground and Satellite Radar Based Measures of Peatland Surface Motion for Peatland Monitoring. Remote Sensing, 14(2), 336 https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14020336
Correspondence/contact details
Authors
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2697-5394
Bradley, A.W.
University of Nottingham
Sowter, A.
Terra Motion Ltd
Sterk, H.P.
University of the Highlands and Islands
Marsh, S.
University of Nottingham
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University of the Highlands and Islands
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