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license: cc-by-sa-4.0
tags:
  - earth-observation
  - remote-sensing
  - satellite
  - geospatial
size_categories:
  - 1M<n<10M

WORK IN PROGRESS...

Spatial-Reference-Grid

The MajorTom spatial reference grid is now available as spatial data, provided in both GeoParquet and GeoPackage formats. It is a global grid containing 5,091,140 cells.

image

Metadata content

Field Type Description
grid_cell string Major TOM cell
grid_row_u int Major TOM cell row
grid_col_r int Major TOM cell col
utm_crs string CRS of the original product
centre_lat float Centre of the of the grid_cell latitude
centre_lon float Centre of the of the grid_cell longitude
utm_footprint string Polygon footprint (image UTM) of the grid_cell
geometry geometry Polygon footprint (WGS84) of the grid_cell
geotransform array geotransform of the footprint

Example Use

Interface scripts are available at

import geopandas as gpd

gdf_pq = gpd.read_parquet("MT_grid_10km_global.parquet")
gdf_pq.head(5)

gdf_gpkg = gpd.read_file("MT_grid_10km_global.gpkg", layer="MT")
gdf_gpkg.head(5)

Authors

Mikolaj Czerkawski (Asterisk Labs), Marcin Kluczek (CloudFerro), Jędrzej S. Bojanowski (CloudFerro)

Open Access Manuscript

arxiv

@inproceedings{Major_TOM,
  title={Major TOM: Expandable Datasets for Earth Observation}, 
  author={Alistair Francis and Mikolaj Czerkawski},
  year={2024},
  booktitle={IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium}, 
  eprint={2402.12095},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={cs.CV}
}

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