Global surface water

water

Annual time-series on permanent and seasonal surface water

Details

This dataset offers yearly data on the spatial extent of permanent and seasonal water. The original dataset classifies water seasonality with a 30 m resolution, distinguishing permanent and seasonal water. We aggregated these data to 300 m, reporting on per-pixel percentages of each class.

Subdatasets

permanent | Per-pixel densities of permanent water cover (%)
content description
value_range 0…100
seasonal | Per-pixel densities of seasonal water cover (%)
content description
value_range 0…100

masDMT query

# data call without specifying subdataset and resolution
list_data("GSW")

# data call for specific subdataset 
list_data("GSW/permanent")

# data call to subdataset with a specific resolution
list_data("GSW/permanent/300m")

References

(bibtex)

[1] Pekel, Cottam, Gorelick, and Belward (2016)