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Airborne Imagery Of The UK (Digital)

Publisher
British Geological Survey (BGS)
Updated
13 August 2026
Topic
Not set
Licence
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Summary

The database contains images of the UK, recorded from various airborne multispectral sensors operated by or on behalf of the NERC airborne remote sensing facility. It includes data from the ATM, CASI, PMI, and thermal line scanner instruments. The data are stored in proprietary formats on various types of magnetic media. Full datasets belong to the NERC but BGS has access, the NERC earth observation data centre, NEODC, hold the data. For all enquiries contact NEODC at http://www.neodc.rl.ac.uk.

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
13 August 2026
Harvest GUID
9df8df52-d7a0-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98
Extent (Latitude)
58.7800° to 49.7700°
Extent (Longitude)
-8.9100° to 3.1900°
Dataset reference date (creation)
1982
Frequency of update
annually
Access constraints
The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
Responsible party
British Geological Survey (distributor, custodian, pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng