Surface Area of Rivers and Lakes (SARL)

[BjornNyberg]

Contact Details

[email protected]

Dataset description

The Surface Area of River and Lakes (SARL) dataset by Nyberg et al., show the 38-years of seasonal and permanent water surface area change in rivers and lakes. The raster datasets are available globally between 1984 to 2022 at a 30 m resolution showing 7 classes that represent:

• 0: Background Value
• 1: Permanent River
• 2: Permanent Lake
• 3: Seasonal River
• 4: Seasonal Lake
• 5: No Data Lakes
• 6: No Data Rivers

The open access article published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences can be found here. In addition, the datasets are archived in a zenodo repository available at this url.

Earth Engine Snippet if dataset already in GEE

var image = ee.Image('users/bjornburrnyberg/SARL');

Map.setOptions('SATELLITE');

var colors = {min:1,max:6, palette:['#0571b0','#d01c8b','#92c5de','#f1b6da','#999999','#ffffff']};

var img = image.select('Y2020');
var mask = img.gt(0);

Map.addLayer(img.mask(mask),colors,'Y2020');

Enter license information

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Keywords

water, water change, rivers, lakes

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct

[samapriya]

This has now been completed and will be made available next week. Thank you for contributing. :)

The dataset has also been copied over to ee.Image("projects/sat-io/open-datasets/SARL") for consistency in path