Historical metrics on Surface water dynamics
This dataset provides historical metrics on the global behavior of surface water measured between 1984 and 2020. The original data, provided at a 30-m resolution, was aggregagted up to a 300-m through averaging.
maxExtent | Maximum recorded extent (%)
| content | description |
|---|---|
| value_range | 0…100 |
occurrence | Intra and inter-annual water cover instability (%)
| content | description |
|---|---|
| value_range | 0…100 |
recurrence | Inter-annual water return frequency (%)
| content | description |
|---|---|
| value_range | 0…100 |
# data call without specifying subdataset and resolution
list_data("GSW_history")
# data call for specific subdataset
list_data("GSW_history/maxExtent")
# data call to subdataset with a specific resolution
list_data("GSW_history/maxExtent/300m")[1] Pekel, Cottam, Gorelick et al. (2016)