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2012 State-wide Landsat 5 image dataset. Data Package.
Created: 03 Nov 2024 Revised: 27 Feb 2025
Author: Mauger, A.J.

The Earth surface satellite multispectral images presented herein have been scanned along multiple, overlapping, 185 km wide swathes crossing the State, which are subdivided into sixty-two 170 km long 'scenes' that contain ~10% (on average)...

The Earth surface satellite multispectral images presented herein have been scanned along multiple, overlapping, 185 km wide swathes crossing the State, which are subdivided into sixty-two 170 km long 'scenes' that contain ~10% (on average) progressive linear overlap with adjoining scenes in the same swathe. The lateral overlap between swathes scanned during successive orbits is approximately 26 km. The raw spectrum locational data for individual scenes has been spatially corrected by DMITRE for alignment with the local MGA map projection zones. Besides the imaged Landsat scenes for South Australia, a dataset metadata file, and a helpful literature excerpt from a published reference of 1999, giving background technical information about the Landsat Earth imaging programme, the subject data package includes a location plot of the Landsat scenes referenced for South Australia, and the various WRS source locator plot GIS shapefiles.

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Record No mesac25642
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Dataset
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Contributor Earth Observation Satellite Company;DMITRE Resources and Energy Group. Geological Survey of South Australia
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      Notes 
      Notes: Landsat 5 has a maximum transmission bandwidth of 85 Mbit/s. It was launched into orbit at an altitude of 705.3 km (438.3 mi) on 1/3/1984, and began routine multispectral data transmission on 16/10/1986. This satellite takes about 16 days...
      Notes: Landsat 5 has a maximum transmission bandwidth of 85 Mbit/s. It was launched into orbit at an altitude of 705.3 km (438.3 mi) on 1/3/1984, and began routine multispectral data transmission on 16/10/1986. This satellite takes about 16 days to scan the entire Earth, and remarkably, is still partly functional and acquiring new data. Design-wise, it is an identical copy of Landsat 4, and was originally intended as a backup. Therefore, Landsat 5 carries the same instruments, including the Thematic Mapper and Multi-Spectral Scanner. The Thematic Mapper stopped acquiring data on 18/11/2011. The Multi-Spectral Scanner was powered down in 1995, but was reactivated again in 2012. The regular nature of the orbiting Landsat system has given rise to a subtended data window path and row Worldwide Reference System (WRS) for locating and obtaining Landsat imagery for any area on Earth. The WRS has catalogued the world's landmass into 57,784 'scenes', each consisting of about 3.8 gigabytes of data.
Geographic Locality: South Australia
Doc No: GDP 00016

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      Language English
      Metadata Standard ISO 19115-3

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      License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
      Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/dataset/mesac25642
      Citation Mauger, A.J. 2012 State-wide Landsat 5 image dataset. Data Package.
      https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/dataset/mesac25642

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      Geographic Reference GDA2020 (EPSG:7844)
      Geo bounding box {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[129,-38],[141,-38],[141,-26],[129,-26],[129,-38]]]}
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