This dataset contains maps of the location and temporal
distribution of surface water from 1984 to 2015 and provides
statistics on the extent and change of those water surfaces.
For more information see the associated journal article: High-resolution
mapping of global surface water and its long-term changes
(Nature, 2016) and the online Data Users Guide.
These data were generated using 3,066,102 scenes from Landsat
5, 7, and 8 acquired between 16 March 1984 and 10 October 2015.
Each pixel was individually classified into water / non-water
using an expert system and the results were collated into a monthly
history for the entire time period and two epochs (1984-1999,
2000-2015) for change detection.
This Monthly History collection holds the entire history of water detection
on a month-by-month basis. The collection contains 380 images, one for each
month between March 1984 and October 2015.
Bands
Pixel Size 30 meters
Bands
Name
Pixel Size
Description
water
meters
Water detection for the month.
Bitmask for water
Bits 0-1: Water detection
0: No data
1: Not water
2: Water
Image Properties
Image Properties
Name
Type
Description
month
DOUBLE
Month
year
DOUBLE
Year
Terms of Use
Terms of Use
All data here is produced under the Copernicus Programme and is provided
free of charge, without restriction of use. For the full license
information see the Copernicus Regulation.
Publications, models, and data products that make use of these datasets
must include proper acknowledgement, including citing datasets and the
journal article as in the following citation.
If you are using the data as a layer in a published map, please include the
following attribution text: 'Source: EC JRC/Google'
Citations
Citations:
Jean-Francois Pekel, Andrew Cottam, Noel Gorelick, Alan S. Belward,
High-resolution mapping of global surface water and its long-term changes.
Nature 540, 418-422 (2016). (doi:10.1038/nature20584)
This dataset contains maps of the location and temporal distribution of surface water from 1984 to 2015 and provides statistics on the extent and change of those water surfaces. For more information see the associated journal article: High-resolution mapping of global surface water and its long-term changes (Nature, 2016) and …
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