About Landmap

What is Landmap?

The Landmap Service provides UK academia with a high quality spatial data download service which is enhanced and supported by a range of learning materials.

What are the Landmap Service's key activities?

• Provide Geospatial Support Services via the spatial helpdesk
  • Delivers tailored response to your needs.
• Research and Development
  • Exploring new data delivery methods
    • KML for viewing data in Google Earth
    • Creation of Web Map Services (WMS) and Web Coverage Services (WCS) to improve interoperability between web services
  • Applications of radar and optical data
    • Morecambe Bay Project
    • Working with other institutions for postgraduate projects
• Dissemination and Outreach
  • Participate in key Remote Sensing and GIS events e.g. RSPSoc, GISRUK, FOSS4G and GeoForum
• Seeking out new Learning Materials from the academic community
  • Hyperspectral tutorial, radar tutorial, application of Cities Revealed data

What is the current status of the service?

The Landmap Service was awarded a further 5 years funding by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) from 1st August 2007. This will enable the service to acquire further optical and radar data on behalf of the academic community. The service will also focus on producing further learning materials to enable more students to utilise satellite imagery in their studies and research. We are keen to hear from any institutions who would be interested in producing learning materials for the following areas of interest:

• Atmospheric correction
• Use of OGC services in teaching and learning
• Hyperspectral Imaging

How did the Landmap Service Begin?

The JISC funded Landmap Project was a joint project between Mimas, the University College London Dept. of Geomatic Engineering and other project partners which began in 2001. (A full list of the project participants is under the Project Team link of this website.) The project produced orthorectified satellite image mosaics of Landsat, SPOT and ERS radar data and a high resolution Digital Elevation Model (DEM) for the British Isles. This data is now available from the Landmap Service in formats that are readily accessible to users of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Image Processing and Desktop publishing software via the Landmap Service.

Since the completion of this project the Landmap Service has continued to develop including the participation in the JISC Interoperability Demonstrator Project, the start of ENVISAT data acquisitions due to a unique agreement with the European Space Agency and Grid enabling Landmap datasets began with the GEMS II Project (Grid Enabling Mimas Services) and is currently continuing to be developed with the SARoNGS Project.

Mimas National Data Centre

Mimas is a JISC-supported national data centre providing the UK higher education, further education and the academic research community with networked access to key data and information resources to support teaching, learning and research across a wide range of disciplines. Mimas services are available free of charge to users at eligible institutions - although site subscriptions are required for a number of the data and information resources.