DIAS Metadata: LANDSAT-8 GeoTIFF

Category: Acquisition

Begin position (beginPosition) – text/date+iso8601
Acquisition start date time, i.e. time of the oldest data within the product.
Format standard: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.mmmZ
End position (endPosition) – text/date+iso8601
Acquisition end date time, i.e. time of the most recent data within the product.
Format standard: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.mmmZ

Category: Ground Information

Footprint (footprint) – application/gml+xml
Boundaries of the frame. In addition to the constraints imposed by the GML type for linear rings, the coordinates shall be declared in a counter-clockwise order.
UTM Zone (utmZone) – text/plain
UTM Zone.

Category: Instrument

Instrument name (instrumentName) – text/plain
The instrument name used for acquiring the data.
Value: ‘Operational Land Imager’, ‘Thermal Infrared Sensor’ or ‘Combined Operational Land Imager and Thermal Infrared Sensor’.
Instrument short name (instrumentShortName) – text/plain
The short name of the instrument.
Value: ‘OLI’, ‘TIRS’ or ‘TIRS+OLI’.

Category: Other

Filename (filename) – text/plain
Package file name.
Product type (productType) – text/plain
Product type.
Value: ‘L1T’, ‘L1G’, ‘L1GT’, ‘L1GS’ or ‘L1TP’.
Size (size) – text/plain
Size of the package.
Format (format) – text/plain
Format of the product.
Value: ‘GEOTIFF’.

Category: Platform

Platform name (platformName) – text/plain
The mission full name of the platform. This name is not a perfect identifier.
Value: ‘Landsat-8’.
Platform short name (platformShortName) – text/plain
The mission short name of the platform. This name is not a perfect identifier.
Value: ‘LS-8’.
Platform serial identifier (platformSerialIdentifier) – text/plain
The platform serial identifier is the sequence number of the platform among the mission. This serial identifier may follow different rules. It may start from 0 or 1, be Roman or alphabetical numbers, or a combination (e.g. ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘1A’, ‘B’, ‘IX’, etc.)
Value: ‘8’.
Platform NSSDC identifier (platformNssdcid) – text/plain
Univocally identifies the platform. The exact syntax and lexical space of this identifier is defined by the World Data Center for Satellite Information (WDC-SI), which depends on the NASA’s National Space Science Data Center. For each platform, the exact identifier is available from the mission name at the address: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/sc-query.html.
Value: ‘2013-008A’.

Category: Processing

Processing level (processingLevel) – text/plain
The level of the last processing.
Value: ‘LEVEL-1’.
Processing date (processingDate) – text/date+iso8601
Date time of the last processing.

Category: Quality

Cloud cover percentage (cloudCoverPercentage) – text/plain
Cloud cover percentage.

Category: Sensor

Sensor type (sensorType) – text/plain
Sensor type based on codelist.
Value: ‘OPTICAL’.