Geoscience and Remote Sensing

The files here support the analysis presented in the paper in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, "Snow Property Inversion from Remote Sensing (SPIReS): A Generalized Multispectral Unmixing Approach with Examples from MODIS and Landsat 8 OLI" Spectral mixture analysis has a history in mapping snow, especially where mixed pixels prevail. Using multiple spectral bands rather than band ratios or band indices, retrievals of snow properties that affect its albedo lead to more accurate estimates than widely used age-based models of albedo evolution.

The dataset contains two sets of planetary models used in the Reproducibility Challenge Student Cluster Competition at the SC19 conference. During this challenge the competitors reproduced parts of the SC18 paper: "Computing planetary interior normal modes with a highly parallel polynomial filtering eigensolver." by Shi, Jia, et al. (https://doi.org/10.1109/SC.2018.00074)

This multispectral remote sensing image data contained pixels of size (1024 x 1024) for the region around Kolkata city in India and was obtained with LISS-III sensor. There are four spectral bands, i.e., two from visible spectrum (green and red) and two from the infrared spectrum (near-infrared and shortwave infrared). The spatial resolution and spectral variation over the wavelength are 23.5m and 0.52 - 1.7 μm, respectively.

This dataset was created from all Landsat-8 images from South America in the year 2018. More than 31 thousand images were processed (15 TB of data), and approximately on half of them active fire pixels were found. The Landsat-8 sensor has 30 meters of spatial resolution (1 panchromatic band of 15m), 16 bits of radiometric resolution and 16 days of temporal resolution (revisit). The images in our dataset are in TIFF (geotiff) format with 10 bands (excluding the 15m panchromatic band).