DEA Water Observations Statistics 3.1.6 [deprecated]

  • This dataset from Geoscience Australia and NGIS uses Landsat imagery to classify water observations across Australia from 1987 to 2022.

  • It provides statistics on water frequency, clear observations, and wet observations at a 25-meter resolution.

  • The dataset includes three bands: count_clear, count_wet, and frequency, indicating the number of clear observations, wet observations, and the percentage of clear observations identified as wet, respectively.

  • DEA Water Observations Statistics is affected by noise due to potential misclassifications in the input water classifications and is best interpreted in conjunction with other datasets.

  • The dataset is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license and is part of the Digital Earth Australia Program.
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Catalog Owner
Geoscience Australia
Dataset Availability
1987-01-01T00:00:00Z–2022-01-01T00:00:00Z
Dataset Provider
Contact
Geoscience Australia
Earth Engine Snippet
ee.ImageCollection("projects/geoscience-aus-cat/assets/ga_ls_wo_fq_cyear_3")
Tags
australia ga geoscience-aus-cat landsat-derived publisher-dataset water

Description

Digital Earth Australia (DEA) Water Observations uses an algorithm to classify each pixel from Landsat satellite imagery as 'wet', 'dry', or 'invalid'. Water Observations Statistics provides information on how many times each year the Landsat satellites were able to clearly see an area, how many times those observations were wet, and what that means for the percentage of time that water was observed in the landscape.

Combining the classified pixels into summaries covering each year gives the information on where water is usually, and where it is rarely. As no confidence filtering is applied to this product, it is affected by noise where misclassifications have occurred in the input water classifications, and can be difficult to interpret on its own.

For more information, please see the DEA Water Observations Statistics Landsat

This product is part of the Digital Earth Australia Program

Bands

Pixel Size
25 meters

Bands

Name Units Min Max Description
count_clear count -32768* 32767*

Clear count: how many times an area could be clearly seen.
count_wet count -32768* 32767*

Wet count: how many times water was detected in observations that were clear.
frequency % 0 1

Water frequency: what percentage of clear observations were detected as wet.
* estimated min or max value

Terms of Use

Terms of Use

CC-BY-4.0

Citations

Citations:

  • Mueller, N., Lewis, A., Roberts, D., Ring, S., Melrose, R., Sixsmith, J., Lymburner, L., McIntyre, A., Tan, P., Curnow, S., & Ip, A. (2016). Water observations from space: Mapping surface water from 25 years of Landsat imagery across Australia. Remote Sensing of Environment, 174, 341-352 doi:10.1016/j.rse.2015.11.003

DOIs

Digital Earth Australia (DEA) Water Observations uses an algorithm to classify each pixel from Landsat satellite imagery as 'wet', 'dry', or 'invalid'. Water Observations Statistics provides information on how many times each year the Landsat satellites were able to clearly see an area, how many times those observations were wet, …
projects/geoscience-aus-cat/assets/ga_ls_wo_fq_cyear_3, australia,ga,geoscience-aus-cat,landsat-derived,publisher-dataset,water
1987-01-01T00:00:00Z/2022-01-01T00:00:00Z
-44.41 108.81 -9.13 157.82
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