ABoVE: Surface Water Extent, Boreal and Tundra Regions, North America, 1991-2011

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
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F1324
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/above/Decadal_Water_Maps/
21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/ABOVE/guides/Decadal_Water_Maps.html
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1324
21 Web Coverage Service for this collection. https://webmap.ornl.gov/wcsdown/dataset.jsp?ds_id=1324
33 ABoVE: Surface Water Extent, Boreal and Tundra Regions, North America, 1991-2011: ABoVE_water_maps_user_guide_05102016.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/above/Decadal_Water_Maps/comp/ABoVE_water_maps_user_guide_05102016.pdf
33 ABoVE: Surface Water Extent, Boreal and Tundra Regions, North America, 1991-2011: Decadal_Water_Maps.pdf https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/above/Decadal_Water_Maps/comp/Decadal_Water_Maps.pdf
21 ABoVE project site https://above.nasa.gov
34 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. https://daac.ornl.gov/ABOVE/guides/DecadalWaterMap_LakeClaire.png

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  • land-use-land-cover
  • land-surface
  • surface-water
  • terrestrial-hydrosphere
  • earth-science

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