Urban Landsat: Cities from Space
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Originator: Small, C
Publication Date: 20061231
Title: Urban Landsat: Cities from Space
Edition: 1.00
Geospatial Data Presentation Form: raster, map
Publication Information:
Publication Place: Palisades, NY
Publisher: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
Online Linkage: https://doi.org/10.7927/H4SQ8XB1
Larger Work Citation:
Citation Information:
Originator: Small, C
Publication Date: 20060816
Title: A Global Analysis of Urban Reflectance
Geospatial Data Presentation Form: journal article
Series Information:
Series Name: International Journal of Remote Sensing
Issue Identification: 26 (4): 661-681
Online Linkage: https://doi.org/10.1080/01431160310001654950
Description:
Abstract:
The Urban Landsat: Cities from Space data set contains images for 66 urban areas and the raw, underlying data for 28 of these places. Each image shows a Landsat false color composite in UTM projection. The R/G/B layers correspond to TM/ETM+ bands 7/4/2. Each pixel is 30x30 meters in area and most images are 30x30 km in area. A 2% linear stretch has been applied to the images. The Landsat data files contain six reflected bands of calibrated exoatmospheric reflectance stored in ENVI band sequential (BSQ) format. Geographic coordinates are included in the header files. The data files contain 1000x1000x6 4 byte floating point numbers as indicated in the header files.
Purpose: To serve a wide user community by providing composite Landsat images and raw data for urban areas that can be used in interdisciplinary studies of remote sensing and the environment.
Supplemental Information:
Further information is available from the Landsat Data Users Handbook.
The Landsat data files (w/o extensions) are in binary format that should be readable by many different software packages. The header files (.hdr) contain the geographic coordinates and pixel dimensions in ENVI format. Storing the header information in a separate file allows many different packages to share the same data file, thereby saving considerable storage space.The data files are band sequential (BSQ) 4 byte floating point stored as row, column and band. Knowing the dimensions, bit depth and order is all that is necessary to open the binary file.
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Range of Dates/Times:
Beginning Date: 1999/01/01
Ending Date: 2003/12/31
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance and Update Frequency: As needed
Spatial Domain:
Bounding Coordinates:
West Bounding Coordinate: -180.000000
East Bounding Coordinate: 180.000000
North Bounding Coordinate: 90.000000
South Bounding Coordinate: -55.000000
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme Keyword Thesaurus: SEDAC Theme
Theme Keyword: Land Use
Theme Keyword: Remote Sensing
Theme Keyword: Urban
Theme:
Theme Keyword Thesaurus: Data Granularity
Theme Keyword: Country
Theme:
Theme Keyword Thesaurus: ISO Topic
Theme Keyword: Imagery/Base Maps/Earth Cover
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Theme Keyword Thesaurus: GCMD Science Keywords, Version 8.6
Theme Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > HUMAN SETTLEMENTS > URBAN AREAS
Place:
Place Keyword Thesaurus: CIESIN Location Terms, Version 3.1
Place Keyword: Afghanistan
Place Keyword: Austria
Place Keyword: Brazil
Place Keyword: Canada
Place Keyword: China
Place Keyword: Dominican Republic
Place Keyword: Ecuador
Place Keyword: Egypt
Place Keyword: El Salvador
Place Keyword: Haiti
Place Keyword: India
Place Keyword: Lebanon
Place Keyword: Nepal
Place Keyword: Nigeria
Place Keyword: North Korea
Place Keyword: Russia
Place Keyword: Syria
Place Keyword: Taiwan
Place Keyword: United States of America
Place Keyword: Vietnam
Place Keyword: Hungary
Access Constraints: None
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The Trustees of Columbia University hold the copyright of this data set. Users are prohibited from any commercial sale or free redistribution without explicit written permission from CIESIN. Users should acknowledge CIESIN as the source used in the creation of any reports, publications, new data sets, derived products, or services resulting from the use of this data set. CIESIN also requests reprints of any publications and notification of any redistributing efforts.
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Contact Organization: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)
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Address: CIESIN, Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, P.O. Box 1000
City: Palisades
State or Province: New York
Postal Code: 10964
Country: United States
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Resource Description: CIESIN_SEDAC_ULANDSAT_URBAN_LANDSAT
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The data in Band Sequential Image (.bsq) format; and images in Portable Document Format (.pdf), and Portable Network Graphics (.png) formats are available from the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC).
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Access Instructions: Maps accessible via the data set landing page.
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Range of Dates/Times:
Beginning Date: 2006/12/31
Ending Date: Present
Metadata Reference Information
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Metadata Date: 2006/08/15
Metadata Review Date: 2022/08/31
Metadata Contact:
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Contact Organization Primary:
Contact Organization: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) Metadata Administration
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Address Type: mailing and physical address
Address: CIESIN, Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, P.O. Box 1000
City: Palisades
State or Province: New York
Postal Code: 10964
Country: United States
Contact Voice Telephone: +1 845-365-8988
Contact Facsimile Telephone: +1 845-365-8922
Contact Electronic Mail Address: metadata@ciesin.columbia.edu
Metadata Standard Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata Standard Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
Metadata Time Convention: local time
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