This airborne hyperspectral (19 bands) image data of Heron Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Australia is derived from Compact Airborne Spectrographic Imager (CASI) data acquired on 1st and 3rd of July 2002, latitude -23.45, longitude 151.92. Processing and correction to at-surface data was completed by Karen Joyce (Joyce, 2004). Raw imagery consisted several images corresponding to the number of flight paths taken to cover the entire Heron Reef. Spatial resolution is one meter. Radiometric corrections converted the at-sensor digital number values to at surface spectral radiance values using sensor specific calibration coefficients and CSIRO's c-WomBat-c atmospheric correction software. Geometric corrections were done using field collected coordinates of features identified in the image. Projection used was Universal Transverse Mercator Zone 56 South and Datum used was WGS 84. Image data is in TIFF format.

The image data has been used in the following references: Hedley et al. (2009), Joyce (2004), Leiper et al. (2012) and Scopélitis et al. (2011). Funding for the data acquisition and field work was provided through a University of Queensland Small Research Grant (2000) "Multi-scale Remote Sensing Approaches for Monitoring and Managing Coral Reefs " to Dr. Stuart Phinn, Dr. David Neil and Dr. William Dennison. Dr's. Arnold Dekker and Vittorio Brando from CSIRO provided advice to guide the image acquisition and processing sequences.