WetlandCombo_NFW_SouthAmerica

This raster GIS dataset contains 30 meter cells depicting non-floodplain wetlands in a hydrobasin. This base dataset is a combination of three globally-available datasets, creating a new dataset that is inclusive of finer-resolution data, while accounting for a wide range of wetland sizes. The three source datasets are: 1) CW-WTD 500-m dataset resampled to 30 m. – Wetland dataset built from a composite wetland-water table depth (Tootchi 2019); 2) CCI (Climate Change Initiative) data resampled from 300 m to 30 m – CCI defined wetlands as “…mixed classes of flooded areas with tree covers, shrubs, or herbaceous covers plus inland water bodies;” and 3) Global Surface Water (GSW) 30-m (Pekel et al. 2016) – A pixel was considered a wetland if it had at least one inundation event over a 32-year range. A 1-km buffer was applied to the HydroBASINS (Lehner and Grill 2013) coastline area and any wetland partially or completely overlain by the 1-km buffer was removed from analysis. In addition, to avoid including large lakes in the data, we also applied a mask using HydroLAKES and removed lake systems ≥10 ha (Messager et al. 2016). The dataset was then overlain by the GFPlain90 floodplain data (resampled to 30 meters) and wetlands overlain by the floodplain were removed.

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  "SouthAmerica",
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