Spectral, Thermal and Active Remote Sensing (STARS)
Database
STARS data resource is temporal (time-bound) information that measures the physiognomic and geomorphic characteristics of the Earth’s surface. STARS imagery is used to detect, map and monitor changes in different Earth surface features in NZ, SW Pacific islands and other regions of interest.
Overview
This resource contains spectral images (visible, multispectral and hyperspectral) and field-based spectral reflectance libraries as well as thermal and active (Synthetic Aperture Radar) remotely sensed images from 2007 onwards.
The STARS resource contains raw and processed spectral images acquired from a range of satellites covering different geographic regions of New Zealand and project sites outside of New Zealand.
This includes raw, atmospheric and ortho-corrected high-resolution imagery from SPOT series, QuickBird, GeoEye, WorldView series, Pleides, RapidEye and Planet satellites etc. Also included are mosaics prepared from Sentinel and Landsat series imagery. The raw imagery is available from main data providers’ web portals.
Spectral libraries are captured either in-situ (in the field) or ex-situ (samples collected from field).
Thermal RS data covers FLIR Thermal images and are processed as Land Surface Temperature for research interest areas such as the Crater Lake, the White Island and a few geothermal anomalous areas.
The active RS data resource covers selected SAR images of AirSAR, TopSAR and Sentinel-1A/B images related to flood mapping incidents in NZ.
Contains public and restricted data. Please contact us for access.
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Cite as: GNS Science. (2021). Spectral, Thermal and Active Remote Sensing (STARS) data resource [Data set]. GNS Science.
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Locations
- Te Tai-o-Aorere / Tasman
- Rangitāhua / Kermadec Islands
- Rēkohu / Chatham Islands
- Rakiura / Stewart Island
- Murihiku / Southland
- Ōtepoti / Dunedin
- Ōtākou / Otago
- Ōtautahi / Christchurch
- Waitaha / Canterbury
- Kaikōura
- Te Tai Poutini / West Coast
- Te Tauihu-o-te-waka/ Marlborough
- Whakatū / Nelson
- Antarctica
- Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara / Wellington
- Manawatū-Whanganui
- Central Plateau
- Taranaki
- Te Matau-a-Māui / Hawke's Bay
- Te Tai Rāwhiti / Gisborne
- Te Moana-a-Toi / Bay of Plenty
- Waikato
- Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland
- Te Tai Tokerau / Northland
- Aotearoa / New Zealand
- Pacific Islands