THE SOURCE – DATA
THE PROCESS OF HOW WE COLLECT OUR DATA
EXAMPLES OF DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS

RGB combination of vegetation parameters

Estimation of sun induced fluorescence

NOx mapping over greater Zurich area by EMPA

Mosaic of APEX data over greater Zurich area for a variety of applications

Snow grain size map of the Findelen glacier (Switzerland)

Alpine area in the Swiss Alps used for ungulate movement pattern study
DATA ACCESS POLICY
The ARES will adopt a rigorous data-sharing attitude. This will be implemented following the guidelines of the GEOSS Data Sharing Principles, namely full and open exchange of data, metadata and products, recognizing relevant Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) policies and FAIR principles; all shared data, metadata and products will be made available; and all shared data, metadata and products being free of charge or no more than cost of reproduction will be applicable for research and education for the proposing team. In addition, the team will set forth a number of rules, defining protected principal investigator times for each internal applicant. For all other (external) users, a common data policy, including property rights as well as a cost model will be developed. In turn, data recipients are asked to provide a data management plan, sending feedback to the facility, allowing steady improvement of its services and output.
DATA SET: Plastic Abundance in Water Bodies
The subsets linked below are imaging spectroscopy data (georectified radiance) of artificially distributed PET bottles in two different lakes in Switzerland (Hallwilersee and Greifensee).
The data sets were acquired with APEX and AVIRIS-NG in 2018.
Ground reference measurements carried out in association with the airborne data sets can be found here.
As the reference to be used for these data sets please cite the IGARSS paper:
A. Hueni and S. Bertschi, “DETECTION OF SUB-PIXEL PLASTIC ABUNDANCE ON WATER SURFACES USING AIRBORNE IMAGING SPECTROSCOPY,” in IGARSS 2020 – 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 26 Sept.-2 Oct. 2020 2020, pp. 6325-6328, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323556.
For further information please refer to the MSc Thesis of Sonja Bertschi.
Site | APEX | AVIRIS-NG | Location of Plastic (WGS84) | Quicklook |
Greifensee | M0228_Greif_180724_a011d_calibr_cube000_geo_subset | GRFNS_waypoints | ![]() |
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Hallwilersee | HALWS_waypoints | ![]() ![]() |
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Irchel Pond | M0211_EcoTran_180701_a041d_calibr_cube_subset | ang20180701t104948_rdn_v2q2_img_subset | IRCHEL_waypoints | ![]() |