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    • Location and Permanency of Water Bodies in the African Sahel Region from 2003-2011

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    This data set provides an estimate of the spatial and temporal extent of surface water at 250-m resolution over nine years (2003-2011) for the African Sahel region (10-20 degrees N) using imagery from the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). Water bodies were identified by a spectral analysis of MODIS vegetation indices with the aim to improve existing regional to global mapping products. This data set can be used to enhance the understanding of Earth system processes, and to support global change studies, agricultural planning, and disease prevention. These data provide a gridded (250-m) estimate of the number of years (during 2003-2011) that a pixel was covered by water. The data are presented in a single netCDF (*.nc) file.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Metadata Created Date September 14, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023

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    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date September 14, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2756239079-ORNL_CLOUD
    Data First Published 2023-08-23
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-08-24
    Category Hydroclimatology, NACP, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.nasa.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation Kaptue, A.T., N.P. Hanan, and L. Prihodko. 2015. Location and Permanency of Water Bodies in the African Sahel Region from 2003-2011. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1269
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    Graphic Preview File https://daac.ornl.gov/graphics/browse/sdat-tds/1269_1_fit.png
    Harvest Object Id c77d0e0b-d6b9-47ca-998f-431be0f65b39
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1269
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -20.0 10.0 40.0 20.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 551ba8e105d5c69ede67d34173e2d517ff0643ed19d0c7cf1ea4686fcac6557c
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z/2011-12-31T23:59:59Z

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