Comprehensive bathymetry and intertidal topography of the Amazon estuary

Fassoni-Andrade, Alice César; Durand, Fabien; Moreira, Daniel; Azevedo, Alberto; dos Santos, Valdenira Ferreira; Funi, Claudia; Laraque, Alain

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-2275-2021

Articles | Volume 13, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-2275-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-2275-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 5

Data description paper

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26 May 2021

Data description paper |

| 26 May 2021

Comprehensive bathymetry and intertidal topography of the Amazon estuary

Alice César Fassoni-Andrade, Fabien Durand, Daniel Moreira, Alberto Azevedo, Valdenira Ferreira dos Santos, Claudia Funi, and Alain Laraque

Data sets

Comprehensive bathymetry and intertidal topography of the Amazon estuary Alice Fassoni-Andrade, Fabien Durand, Daniel Moreira, Alberto Azevedo, Valdenira Santos, Claudia Funi, and Alain Laraque http://dx.doi.org/10.17632/3g6b5ynrdb.2

Short summary

We present a seamless dataset of river, land, and ocean topography of the Amazon River estuary with a 30 m spatial resolution. An innovative remote sensing approach was used to estimate the topography of the intertidal flats, riverbanks, and adjacent floodplains. Amazon River bathymetry was generated from digitized nautical charts. The novel dataset opens up a broad range of opportunities, providing the poorly known underwater digital topography required for environmental sciences.