| global_surface_water_seasonality {mapme.biodiversity} | R Documentation |
Global Surface Water Seasonality
Description
The Global Surface Water dataset was developed by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre in the framework of the Copernicus Programme. It maps the location and temporal distribution of water surfaces at the global scale over the past 3.8 decades and provides statistics on their extent and change. It is provisioned as a global tiled raster resource available for all land areas. The reported data represent aggregated observations between 1984 - 2021.
Usage
get_global_surface_water_seasonality(version = "v1_4_2021")
Arguments
version |
A character vector indicating the version of the GSW data set to make available. |
Details
GSW seasonality describes the intra-annual distribution of surface water for
each pixel. The raster files have integer cell values between [0, 12],
indicating how many months per year the pixel was classified as water.
Value
A character of file paths.
Source
https://global-surface-water.appspot.com/
References
Pekel, JF., Cottam, A., Gorelick, N. et al. High-resolution mapping of global surface water and its long-term changes. Nature 540, 418–422 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature20584