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Land cover of Signy Island, consisting of rock outcrop, moraine, lakes, permanent ice and streams, digitised from February 2020 satellite imagery
GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01923

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Land cover of Signy Island, consisting of rock outcrop, moraine, lakes, permanent ice and streams. All data were manually digitised from a VHR (very high resolution) satellite image acquired on the 10th February 2020. WorldView-2 satellite image (c) 2020 Maxar Technologies.
The datasets are available as polygon and point shapefiles and GeoPackages.
The data were created to support the updated release of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Signy Island map (BAS, 2024)

Keywords:
Signy Island, South Orkney Islands, lakes, land cover, rock outcrop

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Gerrish, L., & Ireland, L. (2024). Land cover of Signy Island, consisting of rock outcrop, moraine, lakes, permanent ice and streams, digitised from February 2020 satellite imagery (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/af80c82c-b6a0-4978-92e0-efe063c390af

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