The QuickBird images of the Heihe River Basin (2004)- A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles

QuickBird satellite was launched by Digital Globe corporation on October 18, 2001. It has 4 multi-spectral bands and 1 panchromatic band, with a spatial resolution of 0.61m for panchromatic bands and a spatial resolution of 2.5m for multi-spectral bands and a width of 16.5 * 16.5 km.

There are two QuickBird remote sensing images in heihe river basin.The acquisition time and coverage were: 2004-03-23, covering zhangye area;2004-08-08, covering danokou and drainage ditch drainage basin.

The product level is level L2 and has been geometrically corrected by the system.

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File name: the data is stored in raster tiff format;File names "geodapingding.tif, pailugou.tif,dayekou.tif" include dayekou, pailugou Regions such as the.
Data reading: Arcgis, Qgis and other software can be used to open the reading, open the display as raster image.

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Li, X., Guo, J. (2013). The QuickBird images of the Heihe River Basin (2004). A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles, (Download the reference： RIS | Bibtex )

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References literature

1.Li, X., Nan, Z.T., Cheng, G.D., Ding, Y.J., Wu, L.Z., Wang, L.X., Wang, J., Ran, Y.H., Li, H.X., Pan, X.D., & Zhu, Z.M. (2011). Toward an improved data stewardship and service for environmental and ecological science data in west China. International Journal of Digital Earth, 4(4): 347-359. DOI: 10.1080/17538947.2011.558123. (View Details | Download )

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