Geoscience Australia Sentinel-2 Analysis Ready Data Collection 3

Brief description

This record was harvested by RDA at 2026-09-17T11:58:12.611638+10:00 from NCI's Data Catalogue where it was last modified at 2022-10-14.

Full description

DEA Surface Reflectance (Sentinel-2 MSI) is part of a suite of Digital Earth Australia (DEA)’s Surface Reflectance datasets that represent the vast archive of images captured by the European Space Agency (ESA) Sentinel-2 satellite programs, validated, calibrated, and adjusted for Australian conditions — ready for easy analysis.

Credit

Principal contributors:
Fuqin Li, David Jupp, Joshua Sixsmith, Lan-Wei Wang, Passand Dorj, Alexander Vincent, Imam Alam, Jeremy Hooke, Simon Oliver, Medhavy Thankappan
Subject matter experts:
Fuqin Li, David Jupp, Joshua Sixsmith

Suggested citation:
Geoscience Australia (2022): Geoscience Australia Sentinel-2 Analysis Ready Data Collection 3. Version 3. NCI Australia.dataset. https://dx.doi.org/10.25914/bg44-x152

Lineage

This product is derived from the ESA Sentinel-2 level 1C archive (https://sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel/missions/sentinel-2). The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) MCD43A1 Version 6 Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function and Albedo (BRDF/Albedo) Model Parameters dataset was provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). It was produced daily using 16 days of Terra and Aqua MODIS data at 500 m resolution. See: USGS: MCD43A1 (https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mcd43a1v006/); NASA: MODIS BRDF / Albedo Parameter (https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/dataprod/mod43.php); Schaaf, C., Gao, F., Strahler, A., Lucht, W., Li, X., & Tsang, T. et al. (2002). First operational BRDF, albedo nadir reflectance products from MODIS. Remote Sensing Of Environment, 83(1-2), 135-148. https://www.doi.org/10.1016/s0034-4257(02)00091-3 The ozone data was provided by Environment Canada. See: Environment Canada: Global Ozone Maps (https://exp-studies.tor.ec.gc.ca/e/ozone/Curr_allmap_g.htm) The Aerosol Optical Thickness data was provided by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). See: Qin, Y., Mitchell, R., & Forgan, B. W. (2015). Characterizing the aerosol and surface reflectance over Australia using AATSR. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 53(11), 6163–6182. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2015.2433911 The Precipitable Water for Entire Atmosphere data was provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) / Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) / Physical Sciences Division (PSD). See: Kalnay, E., Kanamitsu, M., Kistler, R., Collins, W., Deaven, D., & Gandin, L. et al. (1996). The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project. Bulletin Of The American Meteorological Society, 77(3), 437-471. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077<0437:tnyrp>2.0.co;2 The baseline Digital Surface Model (DSM) data produced from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) was provided by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). See: NGA: SRTM (https://www.nga.mil/about/history.html); NASA: SRTM (https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/index.html) Level 1C Collection 1 data was provided by the European Space Agency's Copernicus data hub (https://scihub.copernicus.eu/).