Two-metre resolution land cover classification of the Akrotiri Peninsular, Cyprus from WorldView imagery 2018
bibliographic citation: George, C.T., Gerard, F.F., Peyton, J.M., Pescott, O.L. (2021). Two-metre resolution land cover classification of the Akrotiri Peninsular, Cyprus from WorldView imagery 2018. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/95ab2233-ed8d-4c32-b82c-ae282ba567f7
description: This dataset contains land cover classification of the Akrotiri Peninsular of Cyprus, using WorldView Imagery at 2m resolution. Images from March 2018 and July 2018 were used. All the imagery was atmospherically corrected. The thematic detail of the map was generalised to the following main vegetation/cover types: bare, lake, temporary water, salt marsh, rush salt meadow, garrigue, sparse vegetation, grass, mixed woodland, Eucalyptus and Acacia. The cover classes salt marsh and rush salt meadow represent mosaics of vegetation communities. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, ground data collection was severely restricted, resulting in limited training and validation data. This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability.
provenance: ProvenanceStatement
  label: Data was generated using the ENVI Example Based Feature Extraction tool, from the following satellite images: WorldView-3 (WV-3) 1.2m multispectral (8 wavelength bands) from 3rd March 2018 and WorldView-2 (WV-2) 2.0m multispectral (8 wavelength bands) from 6th July 2018. The July imagery was a single image covering the whole Akrotiri peninsular, while the March imagery consisted of two images (east and west of peninsular) originating from different swaths, each with a different viewing angle. All the imagery was atmospherically corrected using the ENVI FLAASH software. For both east and west, the July and March imagery were resampled to ensure consistency in spatial resolution and combined into a single 2m 16 wavelength band image stack. The classification was validated using google maps and local knowledge due to COVID-19 restricting ground data collection.
spatial: Location
temporal: PeriodOfTime
  start date: 2018-03-03
  end date: 2018-07-06
publisher: NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
subject: Cyprus
subject: Akrotiri
subject: UK-SCAPE
subject: Land cover
subject: Salt lake
subject: land cover
was generated by: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects
type: Dataset
available: 2021-09-29
landing page: https://doi.org/10.5285/95ab2233-ed8d-4c32-b82c-ae282ba567f7
license: OGL-UK-3.0.ttl
rights: RightsStatement
  copyright notice: Maxar Products. WorldView-2 copyright 2018 Maxar Technologies
rights: RightsStatement
  copyright notice: Maxar Products. WorldView-3 copyright 2018 Maxar Technologies
access rights: UNRS
theme: Land cover
distribution:
  access URL: https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/95ab2233-ed8d-4c32-b82c-ae282ba567f7
  license: OGL-UK-3.0.ttl
  rights: RightsStatement
    copyright notice: Maxar Products. WorldView-2 copyright 2018 Maxar Technologies
  rights: RightsStatement
    copyright notice: Maxar Products. WorldView-3 copyright 2018 Maxar Technologies
  access rights: UNRS
  format: TIFF
creator: George, C.T.
creator: Gerard, F.F.
creator: Peyton, J.M.
creator: Pescott, O.L.
language: en

George, C.
type: Person
family name: George
given name: Charles
member: UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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George, C.T.
type: Person
family name: George
given name: C.T.
member: UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Gerard, F.F.
type: Person
family name: Gerard
given name: F.F.
member: UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Peyton, J.M.
type: Person
family name: Peyton
given name: J.M.
member: UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Pescott, O.L.
type: Person
family name: Pescott
given name: O.L.
member: UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Land cover
type: Concept

land cover
type: Concept

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
type: Organization