Global Water Bodies

Global map of open permanent water bodies at 300m spatial resolution derived from the full ENVISAT-ASAR dataset between 2005 and 2010.

In an attempt to improve the characterization of inland water bodies in global LC products, a SAR-based approach has been implemented. Multi-temporal acquisitions of Envisat ASAR Wide Swath Mode with local gap fillers based on Image Mode and Global Monitoring Mode from the years 2005 to 2010, MERIS data and auxiliary datasets have been used to generate a single epoch map of permanent open water bodies at 300 m.

Static map of stable open water bodies at 300m spatial resolution resulting from a land/water classification based on Envisat ASAR, SRTM-SWBD and MERIS data. The water pixels of this map correspond to the class "Water Bodies" of the CCI-LC Maps.

The product consists of 3 layers:

Map land/permanent water classification at 300m spatial resolution. Legend : 1-Land, 2-Water,

NObsImsWS number of observations originating from the ASAR Wide Swath Mode + Image Monitoring Mode imagery,

NObsImsGM number of observations originating from the ASAR global monitoring mode imagery.

Date ( Publication ): 2014-10-01T00:00:00

Identifier: http://datacore.grid.unep.ch/geonetwork/srv/metadata/4dde9a8b-13b4-4b02-82c4-8b21818579dc

Originator

European Space Agency - CCI Land cover

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Keywords ( Theme )

GRID core datasets

Keywords ( Place )

World

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Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 1000000

Metadata language: en

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Inland waters

Begin date: 2005

End date: 2010

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