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This dataset provides polygon spatial files of lake and pond extents for three sub-regions of Interior Alaska's boreal forest, and one tundra region located in Alaska's Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Files provide lake and pond extents of standing water without wetland vegetation or other obstructions with a minimum area of 0.01 ha. Water extents were derived from Planet Labs PlanetScope imagery with resolution of 3.125 m. A deep learning model (U-Net) was applied to PlanetScope orthotile imagery from Planet Labs' Dove-R and Super Dove satellites. The U-Net model used the red, green, blue, and near-infrared bands along with a slope raster derived from a 30-m digital elevation model (DEM) as inputs. The U-Net detected water bodies in all available cloud-free images from the snow-free period (May-September) of 2019-2021. Water body data are provided as 3-year composites (2019-2021) for all four regions and monthly climatological composites (May-September) over 2019-2021 for the three boreal forest regions. The composite water files indicate the presence of open, standing water in >40% of valid PlanetScope observations for a given composite time-slice. Files are provided in shapefile format.
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GENERAL DOCUMENTATION | ABoVE: Lake and Pond Extents in Alaskan Boreal and Tundra Subregions, 2019-2021: Alaska_Lake_Pond_Maps.pdf | |
USER'S GUIDE | ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation |