Articles | Volume 16, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-4311-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-4311-2024
Data description paper
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23 Sep 2024
Data description paper |  | 23 Sep 2024

A globally sampled high-resolution hand-labeled validation dataset for evaluating surface water extent maps

Rohit Mukherjee, Frederick Policelli, Ruixue Wang, Elise Arellano-Thompson, Beth Tellman, Prashanti Sharma, Zhijie Zhang, and Jonathan Giezendanner

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Rohit_GlobalSurfaceWaterDataset_2024 R. Mukherjee et al. https://doi.org/10.25739/03nt-4f29

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Global water resource monitoring is crucial due to climate change and population growth. This study presents a hand-labeled dataset of 100 PlanetScope images for surface water detection, spanning diverse biomes. We use this dataset to evaluate two state-of-the-art mapping methods. Results highlight performance variations across biomes, emphasizing the need for diverse, independent validation datasets to enhance the accuracy and reliability of satellite-based surface water monitoring techniques.

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