The Lake Observations by Citizen Scientists & Satellites (LOCSS) Level 1 Version 1.0

Description

This dataset contains data from the Lake Observations by Citizen Science and Satellites project, LOCSS which is a lake monitoring network. The data represent the location and main descriptors of the lake gauges and their readings. LOCSS project aims to collaborate with local citizens to monitor small and medium sized lakes (i.e., lakes with an average surface area less than 100 km2). At each location, a lake gauge is installed and provided with a cellphone number. Local citizens read the water level at each lake gauge and sent it in a text message. Data can also be manually collected and uploaded later from the website in remote places where cellphone signal is challenged. The readings are specified in cm, m, or ft, according to the local unit system. This version of the dataset has lakes located in seven (7) countries: Bangladesh, India, Canada, the United States, Pakistan, and Nepal. This product consists of two files in comma-separated values (csv) format : 1) the list of gauges whose attributes include gauge coordinates, installation dates, the height of the gauge, reading units, city, time zone, and installation notes; 2) list of readings by each gauge specified in the local time. To discover more details about LOCSS, please visit https://www.locss.org/.

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Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FLOCSS-L1V10
21 Data Use and Citation Policy https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/CitingPODAAC
21 LOCSS information Page https://www.locss.org/
21 LiquidEarth Lake Citizen Science Data Portal https://liquidearthlake.website
21 HTTPS endpoint for data browse and download https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/virtual-directory/collections/C2285137889-POCLOUD
21 Browse granule search results in Earthdata Search https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C2285137889-POCLOUD
21 Data Subscriber https://github.com/podaac/data-subscriber
34 Thumbnail https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/Podaac/thumbnails/LOCSS_L1_V1.PNG
21 Little, S., Pavelsky, T. M., Hossain, F., Ghafoor, S., Parkins, G. M., Yelton, S. K., ... & Topp, S. N. (2021). Monitoring variations in lake water storage with satellite imagery and citizen science. Water, 13(7), 949. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13070949
33 The Lake Observations by Citizen Scientists & Satellites (LOCSS) Level 1 Version 1.0 Dataset User’s Guide https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/locss/LOCSS_L1_V1_User_Guide_20230104.pdf
21 Ahmad, S. K., Hossain, F., Pavelsky, T., Parkins, G. M., Yelton, S., Rodgers, M., ... & Biswas, R. K. (2020). Understanding volumetric water storage in monsoonal wetlands of northeastern Bangladesh. Water Resources Research, 56(12), e2020WR027989. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR027989

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  • surface-water
  • terrestrial-hydrosphere
  • earth-science

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