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Quantifying Surface Water Dynamics at 30 Meter Spatial Resolution in the North American High Northern Latitudes 1991-2011

M. Carroll,M. Wooten,C. DiMiceli,R. Sohlberg,Maureen Kelly

Published 2016 in Remote Sensing

ABSTRACT

The availability of a dense time series of satellite observations at moderate (30 m) spatial resolution is enabling unprecedented opportunities for understanding ecosystems around the world. A time series of data from Landsat was used to generate a series of three maps at decadal time step to show how surface water has changed from 1991 to 2011 in the high northern latitudes of North America. Previous attempts to characterize the change in surface water in this region have been limited in either spatial or temporal resolution, or both. This series of maps was generated for the NASA Arctic and Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE), which began in fall 2015. These maps show a “nominal” extent of surface water by using multiple observations to make a single map for each time step. This increases the confidence that any detected changes are related to climate or ecosystem changes not simply caused by short duration weather events such as flood or drought. The methods and comparison to other contemporary maps of the region are presented here. Initial verification results indicate 96% producer accuracy and 54% user accuracy when compared to 2-m resolution WorldView-2 data. All water bodies that were omitted were one Landsat pixel or smaller, hence below detection limits of the instrument.

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2016

  • Venue

    Remote Sensing

  • Publication date

    2016-07-28

  • Fields of study

    Computer Science, Environmental Science

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.3390/rs8080622
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    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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