High-resolution mapping of global surface water and its long-term changes

Nature

Volumn 540, Issue 7633, 2016, Pages 418-422

  Pekel, Jean François ^a   Cottam, Andrew ^a   Gorelick, Noel ^b   Belward, Alan S ^a  

^a EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

^b GOOGLE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURFACE WATER; WATER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; DATA SET; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSAT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MAPPING METHOD; OCEANIA ECOZONE; PERSISTENCE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE WATER;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; ECOTONE; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WETLAND; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; DECISION MAKING; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HISTORY; MIDDLE EAST; RIVER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

AUSTRALIA; CENTRAL ASIA; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE SUPERIOR; MIDDLE EAST;

ASIA; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; DROUGHTS; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MIDDLE EAST; RIVERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WATER; WATER SUPPLY; WETLANDS;

EID: 85010648872     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature20584     Document Type: Article

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