Oxford MAP TCB: Malaria Atlas Project Gap-Filled Tasseled Cap Brightness [deprecated]

  • This gap-filled Tasseled Cap Brightness (TCB) dataset, produced by the Malaria Atlas Project, covers the period from 2001 to 2015 and is derived from MODIS imagery with gap-filling applied.

  • The dataset is available monthly at a 5km pixel size and includes bands for the mean TCB value and the proportion of original data versus gap-filled estimates.

  • This dataset is licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 and citations are provided for the gap-filling and tasseled cap methodologies used.

  • This dataset has been superseded by a newer version at a higher resolution.

Oxford/MAP/TCB_5km_Monthly
Dataset Availability
2001-02-01T00:00:00Z–2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
Dataset Provider
Earth Engine Snippet
ee.ImageCollection("Oxford/MAP/TCB_5km_Monthly")
Cadence
1 Month
Tags
brightness
map
oxford
tasseled-cap
tcb
vegetation-indices

Description

This gap-filled Tasseled Cap Brightness (TCB) dataset was created by applying the tasseled-cap equations defined in Lobser and Cohen (2007) to MODIS BRDF-corrected imagery (MCD43B4). The resulting data were gap-filled using the approach outlined in Weiss et al. (2014) to eliminate missing data caused by factors such as cloud cover, and then the data were aggregated temporally and spatially to produce the monthly ≈5km product.

This dataset was produced by Harry Gibson and Daniel Weiss of the Malaria Atlas Project.

Bands

Pixel Size
5000 meters

Bands

Name Units Min Max Pixel Size Description
Mean 0* 1.99* meters

The mean value of Tasseled Cap Brightness for each aggregated pixel.

FilledProportion % 0* 100* meters

A quality control band that indicates the percentage of each resulting pixel that was comprised of raw data (as opposed to gap-filled estimates).

* estimated min or max value

Terms of Use

Terms of Use

CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

Citations

Citations:
  • Weiss, D.J., P.M. Atkinson, S. Bhatt, B. Mappin, S.I. Hay & P.W. Gething (2014) An effective approach for gap-filling continental scale remotely sensed time-series. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 98, 106-118.

  • Lobser, S.E. & Cohen, W.B. (2007) MODIS tasselled cap: land cover characteristics expressed through transformed MODIS data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 28, 5079-5101.

Explore with Earth Engine

Code Editor (JavaScript)

var dataset = ee.ImageCollection('Oxford/MAP/TCB_5km_Monthly')
                  .filter(ee.Filter.date('2013-01-01', '2013-12-31'));
var tcb = dataset.select('Mean');
var tcbVis = {
  min: 0.0,
  max: 1.3,
  palette: [
    '011301', '004c00', '056201', '207401', '3e8601', '66a000', '99b718',
    'fcd163', 'ffffff'
  ],
};
Map.setCenter(-44.65, 22.59, 2);
Map.addLayer(tcb, tcbVis, 'TCB');
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