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GloboLakes: high-resolution global limnology dataset v1

These data are high-resolution datasets related to in-land water for limnology (study of in-land waters) and remote sensing applications. This includes: distance-to-land, distance-to-water, water-body identifier and lake-centre co-ordinates on a high-resolution (1/360x1/360 degree) grid, produced by the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading. Data was derived using the ESA CCI Land Cover Map (see linked documentation).

Datasets containing information to locate and identify water bodies have been generated from high-resolution (1/360x1/360 degree, about 300mx300m) data locating static-water-bodies recently released by the Land Cover Climate Change Initiative (LC CCI) of the European Space Agency. The new datasets provide: distance to land, distance to water, water body identifiers and lake centre locations. The lake identifiers (IDs) are from the Global Lakes and Wetlands Database (GLWD), and lake centres are defined for in-land waters for which GLWD IDs were determined. The new datasets therefore link recent lake/reservoir/wetlands extent to the GLWD, together with a set of coordinates which locates unambiguously the water bodies in the database.

The LC CCI water bodies dataset has been obtained from multi-temporal metrics based on time series of the backscattered intensity recorded by ASAR (Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar) on Envisat between 2005 and 2010. Temporal change in water body extent is common. Future versions of the LC CCI dataset are planned to represent temporal variation, and this will permit these derived datasets to be updated.

The paper associated with this dataset is:

L.Carrea O. Embury C.J. Merchant "High-resolution datasets related to in-land water for limnology and remote sensing applications: distance-to-land, distance-to-water, water-body identifier and lake-centre co-ordinates" Geoscience Data Journal, vol. 2 issue 2, pp. 83-97, November 2015. DOI: 10.1002/gdj3.32

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Date (Publication)
2015-07-21T10:28:54
Date (Creation)
2015-07-21T10:28:54
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/84d4f66b668241328df0c43f8f3b3e16
Identifier
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 84d4f66b668241328df0c43f8f3b3e16
Identifier
doi / http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/6be871bc-9572-4345-bb9a-2c42d9d85ceb
Author
  Unavailable - Carrea, Laura ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Embury, Owen ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Merchant, Christopher J. ( author )
Custodian
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Principal investigator
  Unavailable - Cutler, Mark ( principal_investigator )
Principal investigator
  Unavailable - Groom, Stephen ( principal_investigator )
Principal investigator
  Unavailable - Maberly, Stephen ( principal_investigator )
Principal investigator
  Unavailable - Merchant, Christopher J. ( principal_investigator )
Principal investigator
  Unavailable - Miller, Claire ( principal_investigator )
pointofContact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - point_of_contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
pointofContact
  Unavailable - Carrea, Laura ( point_of_contact )
Publisher
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned Not planned
Update scope
dataset Dataset
Keywords
  • limnology
  • lake
  • freshwater
  • satellite
  • environmental change
  • surface water temperature
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • orthoimagery
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Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
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grid Grid
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EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
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Begin date
2005-01-01T00:00:00
End date
2010-01-01T00:00:00
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
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  • Files are formatted in NetCDF and BADC-CSV ()

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  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - Data Center Contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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Paper: Datasets related to in-land water for limnology and remote sensing applications: distance-to-land, distance-to-water, water-body identifier and lake-centre co-ordinates

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2010-12-08
Statement
Data were processed by the authors and delivered to CEDA for archiving
File identifier
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Metadata language
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GloboLakes: high-resolution global limnology data 06cef537c5b14a2e871a333b9bc0b482
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dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-11-15T03:05:10
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

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