Water Bodies V1 - PROBA-V - Africa

Abstract:
Version 1 of Water bodies describes the state of small ponds in dry regions. The Global Vegetation Monitoring Unit of JRC has developed a method to map and monitor small inland water bodies in arid regions using low resolution satellite imagery from the VEGETATION instrument. Although this instrument provides images of the Earth with a 1-km resolution, it was demonstrated that it is sufficient to accurately map and monitor the presence of water in natural and artificial ponds and swamps of about 1 sq km in size. The accuracy obtained is in the order of 90%, i. e. 90% of the water bodies detected with the method over an area of 1 million 1 sq km were found to be correct.

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dateStamp	2021-11-09
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citation	title: Water Bodies V1 - PROBA-V - Africa dates: creation: 2009-03-23 revision: 2010-10-13 fileIdentifier: EO:EUM:DAT:PROBA-V:SWB (CodeSpace: ) citedResponsibleParty: see section contact (role: distributor) presentationForm: otherCitationDetails:
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