Description
This data set provides the location and extent of surface water (open water not including vegetated wetlands) for the entire Boreal and Tundra regions of North America for three epochs, centered on 1991, 2001, and 2011. Each of the products were generated with at least three years of ice-free Landsat imagery. The data are at 30-m resolution and were derived from time series of Landsat 4 and 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) data and Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM+) covering all of Alaska and all provinces of Canada. The overall goal was to generate a map of the nominal extent of water for a given epoch, where nominal is neither the maximum nor the minimum but rather a representative extent for that time period.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| The dataset's project home page | HTML | ABoVE project site | Open resource |
| Download this dataset | HTML | This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login | Open resource |
| Get a related visualization | PNG | Lake Claire (Canada) as a difference map from 1991 to 2011. Water for 1991-2011 is shown in blue, green 2011, brown 2001, and red is water in 1991. | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | ABoVE: Surface Water Extent, Boreal and Tundra Regions, North America, 1991-2011: ABoVE_water_maps_user_guide_05102016.pdf | Open resource | |
| View documentation related to this dataset | ABoVE: Surface Water Extent, Boreal and Tundra Regions, North America, 1991-2011: Decadal_Water_Maps.pdf | Open resource | |
| This dataset's landing page | HTML | Data set Landing Page DOI URL | Open resource |
| Google Scholar search results | HTML | Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. | Open resource |
| Use Web Coverage Service (WCS) to download the dataset's data | HTML | Web Coverage Service for this collection. | Open resource |