Water cover is one of the basic parameters of water cycle and energy balance. Based on the AVHRR daily reflectance time series from 1982 to 2020, this data set has produced 39 year long-term daily water body mapping products (including water body icing information) on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau. This dataset contains 39 folders, named after the year (from 1982 to 2020). Each folder contains 365 / 366 GeoTIFF files, and each file contains two bands: (1) water mapping band (waterlayer); (2) Quality control information band (QC). This product provides data support for remote sensing monitoring of water bodies in the Qinghai Tibet Plateau.

File naming and required software

TPWater_ YYYY_ DDD.tif
This data is in the standard GeoTIFF format and can be used by remote sensing software such as ArcGIS and envi

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Ji, L. (2022). 0.05° Resolution Daily Surface Water Change Database for Tibet Plateau from 1982-2020. A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles, DOI: 10.11888/Terre.tpdc.272811. CSTR: 18406.11.Terre.tpdc.272811. (Download the reference： RIS | Bibtex )

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Support Program

Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition Program

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