Water Count Time Series - Landsat, DES Algorithm, Queensland
This dataset indicates the presence and persistence of water across Queensland between 1988 and 2022. Water is one of the world’s most important resources as it’s critical for human consumption, agriculture, the persistence of flora and fauna species and other ecosystem services. Information about the spatial distribution and prevalence of water is necessary for a range of business, modelling, monitoring, risk assessment, and conservation activities. The water count product is based on water index and water masks for Queensland (Danaher & Collett 2006) and represents the proportion of observations with water present across the Landsat time series as a fraction of total number of possible observations for the period 1 Jan 1988 to 31 Dec 2022. The product has two bands where band 1 is the number of times water was present across the time series, and band 2 is the count of unobscured (i.e. non-null) input pixels, or number of total observations for that pixel. Cloud, cloud-shadow, steep slopes and topographic shadow can obscure the ability to count water presence.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2023-01-17
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-10-17
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-12-16
- Edition
- 1
Publisher
Custodian
Author
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- The maps are intended for rural landscapes and are suited to many applications including: - property planning - local government planning - flood risk assessment and management - habitat identification and mapping - analyses of potential biodiversity refugia - analyses of landscape change and resilience.
- Credit
- We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
- Credit
- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provided the Landsat imagery.
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
Spatial resolution
- Spatial resolution
- 30
- Topic category
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- Inland waters
- Imagery base maps earth cover
Extent
- Description
- Queensland
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1988-01-01
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Biennially
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Platform Vocabulary
- TERN Instrument Vocabulary
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
- QUDT Units of Measure
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license allows others to copy, distribute, display, and create derivative works provided that they credit the original source and any other nominated parties. Details are provided at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- File name
- 88x31.png
- File description
- CCBy Logo from creativecommons.org
- File type
- png
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- TERN services are provided on an "as-is" and "as available" basis. Users use any TERN services at their discretion and risk. They will be solely responsible for any damage or loss whatsoever that results from such use including use of any data obtained through TERN and any analysis performed using the TERN infrastructure. <br />Web links to and from external, third party websites should not be construed as implying any relationships with and/or endorsement of the external site or its content by TERN. <br /><br />Please advise any work or publications that use this data via the online form at https://www.tern.org.au/research-publications/#reporting
- Other constraints
- Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- Water Count Time Series Data File
- OnLine resource
- Landscape Data Visualiser
- OnLine resource
-
water_count
Water Count Time Series
- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Report
Result
- Statement
- The input imagery was processed to level L1T by the USGS. Geodetic accuracy of the product depends on the image quality and the accuracy, number, and distribution of the ground control points.
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Water mask - The automatic water mask available for detecting water and non-water signatures from Landsat satellite imagery for a single date. Water presence/absence is assessed for each 30 m Landsat pixel. This is the primary product used to develop the water count and water prevalence products, which are based on the Landsat time series (1 Jan 1989 to 31 Dec 2021). Water count - The water count product is calculated, per pixel, as the sum of number of observations with water present across the Landsat time series as a fraction of total number of possible observations for the period 1 Jan 1989 to 31 Dec 2021. Water prevalence - The water prevalence product is extracted from the water count product and classified by proportions of observations with water present.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:3577
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/551324f6-54ce-4810-bf0e-4f3fa12afef1
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/551324f6-54ce-4810-bf0e-4f3fa12afef1
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-01-31T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2024-12-16T00:00:00
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-1:2014/AMD 1:2018 Geographic information - Metadata - Fundamentals
- Edition
- 1
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19115-3:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19157-2:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
- Title
- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-3:2016 and ISO 19157-2:2016
- Date (published)
- 2021
- Edition
- 1.0