Data coverage
Water Observations from Space (WOfS) maps the presence of surface water across the Pacific region using Landsat satellite imagery, highlighting where water is usually present and where it is rarely present. The dataset supports flood mapping, drought monitoring, hydrological analysis, and water resource management. It comprises three products: - Scene-based Surface Water: per-scene classification of surface water presence, derived from Landsat imagery using water detection algorithms, from 1984 onwards. - Annual Summary: annual statistics of wet and clear observation counts and water frequency, capturing interannual variability in water extent. - All-Time Summary: the frequency of water presence across all available observations, highlighting persistent and seasonal water bodies.
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Digital Earth Pacific Data is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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