Product catalogue
Australian National Spectral Database
The National Spectral Database (NSD) houses data taken by Australian remote sensing scientists. The database includes spectra covering targets as diverse as mineralogy, soils, plants, water bodies and various land surfaces.<br />
Currently the database holds spectral information from multiple locations across the country and as the collection grows in spatial / temporal coverage, the NSD will service continental scale validation requirements of the Earth observation community for satellite-based measurements of surface reflectance.
The NSD is accessed with information provided at the NSD Geoscience Australia Content Management Interface (CMI) web page:
https://cmi.ga.gov.au/data-products/dea/643/australian-national-spectral-database
<b>Value:</b>
Curated spectral data provides a wealth of knowledge to remote sensing scientists. For other parties interested in calibration and validation (Cal/Val) of surface reflectance products, the Geoscience Australia (GA) Cal/Val dataset provides a useful resource of ground-truth data to compare to reflectance captured by Landsat 8 and Sentinel 2 satellites.
The Aquatic Library is a robust collection of Australian datasets from 1994 to present time, primarily of end-member and substratum measurements.
The University of Wollongong collection represents immense value in end-member studies, both terrestrial and aquatic.
<b>Scope:</b>
The NSD covers Australian data including historical datasets as old as 1994. Physical study sites encompass locations around Australia, with spectra captured in every state.
<b>Data types:</b>
- Spectral data: raw digital numbers (DN), radiance and reflectance.
- From spectral bands VIS-NIR, SWIR1 & SWIR2: wavelengths 350nm - 2500nm collected with instruments in the field or lab setting.
Contact for further information: NSDB_manager@ga.gov.au manager@ga.gov Contact for further information: NSDB_manager@ga.gov.au
<b>To view the entire collection click on the keyword "HVC 144490" in the below Keyword listing <b>
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2020-11-06
- Date (Publication)
- 2021-11-05T00:10:47
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/145560
Identifier
- Codespace
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Digital Obejct Identifier
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Author Geoscience Australia
External Contact
- Purpose
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- Provide access to curated Australian spectral data, including Geoscience Australia's Analysis Ready Data (ARD) field Calibration and Validation datasets.
- Promote the highest-quality metadata collection and uptake to get the most value out of remote sensing datasets.
- Provide an ongoing & managed repository for past, current and future remote sensing studies.
- Status
- On going
- Point of contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice Point of contact Byrne, G.
Space Division Internal Contact Point of contact Thankappan, M.
Space Division Internal Contact Resource provider Place, Space and Communities Division
External Contact
- Spatial representation type
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
Extent
))
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1994-04-09
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
Resource format
- Title
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Product data repository: Various Formats
- Protocol
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FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY
- Name of the resource
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Data Store directory containing the digital product files
- Description
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Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes
- theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
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EARTH SCIENCES
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- Keywords
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Australian Remote Sensing
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- Discipline
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Field Spectroscopy
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- Keywords
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Analysis Ready Data (ARD)
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- Keywords
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Digital Earth Australia (DEA) Calibration & Validation
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- Keywords
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Aquatic Substrate Library
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- Keywords
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Spectral Library
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- Keywords
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Earth Observation data
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- Keywords
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HVC_144490
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- Keywords
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HVC, High Value Collection
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- Keywords
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DC2020
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- Keywords
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Published_External
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Resource constraints
- Title
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
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CC-BY
- Edition
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4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- License
Resource constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Was informed by
- Title
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Calibration & Validation Surface Reflectance Measurements
- Citation identifier
- 145974
- Citation identifier
- 0dc01c73-65c3-4b09-b2cc-00fc1c98001e
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Resource lineage
- Statement
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Datasets
- Geoscience Australia (GA) field data campaigns: From the Analysis Ready Data (ARD) Cal/Val team, Digital Earth Australia (DEA), GA
- Aquatic Substrate Library: Provided by Dr Arnold Dekker (SatDek)
- University of Wollongong Spectral Datasets: Provided by Dr Laurie Chisolm (UoW)
Data types
- Spectral data: raw digital numbers (DN), radiance and reflectance.
- From spectral bands VIS-NIR, SWIR1 & SWIR2: wavelengths 350nm - 2500nm collected with instruments in the field or lab setting.
Metadata constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security Classification System
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/daf4b7d5-d962-492d-82bf-5382b4345dbe
- Title
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GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Hay, R.
External Contact Point of contact Byrne, G.
Space Division Internal Contact Owner Rowland, J.
Corporate Division Internal Contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with
uuid
- Citation identifier
- eCatId/145560
- Date info (Creation)
- 2020-11-05T22:28:21
- Date info (Revision)
- 2020-11-05T22:28:21
Metadata standard
- Title
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-3
- Title
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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014
- Edition
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Version 2.0, September 2018
- Citation identifier
- https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551