Title
Bare soil composite for cropland in Germany
License
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Abstract

Average true color soil reflectance composite (SRC) of vegetation-free cropland areas, based on Landsat satellite images from 2011 to 2023. Bare soil observations were automatically selected using the FORCE processing framework and spectral indices (NDVI, NBR2, BCC). Outliers were removed and the remaining values were averaged for each band and pixels. Only pixels with 6 or more exposed soil observations are shown.

 

Publication Date
Type
Raster Data
Keywords
Category
Farming
Rearing of animals and/or cultivation of plants. Examples: agriculture, irrigation, aquaculture, plantations, herding, pests and diseases affecting crops and livestock.
Regions
Germany
Responsible
Group
Fernerkundungsatlas
Maintenance Frequency
there are no plans to update the data
Restrictions
otherRestrictions
Purpose

The bare soil information contributes to a set of geospatial co-variates for the estimation of status and trends in soil parameters for Germany at high spatial resolution. The work is part of the project  KlimaFern at Thünen Institute.

Language
English
Supplemental Information

No information provided

Spatial Representation Type
grid data is used to represent geographic data
Attribute Name Label Description
RED_BAND
GREEN_BAND
BLUE_BAND