Landsat 5 Satellite Imagery for Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait, 1988-2011

59 Landsat 5 satellite images processed into true color GeoTIFFs for selected areas of Queensland, including the Torres Strait and around Lizard Island and Cape Tribulation. The collection was developed by the Australian Ocean Data Network as part of the NERP TE 13.1 project and eAtlas AIMS, sourced from NASA archives. Images were selected from the full Landsat 5 archive for low cloud cover and clear water to facilitate marine feature investigation.

Use Cases

• Monitor coastal and marine feature changes over time based on the multi-year satellite imagery archive.
• Analyze water clarity and turbidity patterns based on images selected for clear water conditions.
• Conduct remote sensing analysis of coral reef and island environments based on true color GeoTIFF imagery.

Strengths

• 59 processed images provide multiple observations for each of the 9 specified scenes.
• Images were specifically selected for low cloud cover and clear water, enhancing usability for marine studies.
• Data is processed into lossless LZW-compressed GeoTIFFs with a consistent WGS 84 UTM 54N projection.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• A constant level adjustment was applied regardless of season, which may affect brightness consistency across images.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

NASA Landsat 5 archive, processed by Australian Ocean Data Network (eAtlas AIMS).

Collection Method

Images were downloaded from Google Earth Engine, processed with GDAL for true color conversion and level adjustment, and selected for clarity.

Time Range

1988-2011

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-13 18:24:57.632385; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Selected areas of Queensland, Australia: Torres Strait, Lizard Island, Cape Tribulation (scenes 96_70, 96_71, 97_67, 97_68, 98_66, 98_67, 98_68_99_66, 99_67, 99_68).