Global Distribution of Tidal Flat Ecosystems

The dataset contains global maps of tidal flat ecosystems produced via a supervised classification of 707,528 Landsat Archive images. Each pixel was classified into tidal flat, permanent water or other with reference to a globally distributed set of training data.

The maps were created to identi...

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Source https://resources.unep-wcmc.org/products/498a5fe5db454f1f92342b14ceda1058
Author UNEP-WCMC
Maintainer UNEP-WCMC
Last Updated March 9, 2023, 14:17 (UTC)
Created March 9, 2023, 12:16 (UTC)
GUID unep-wcmc-rsrc-geospatial-dataset-498a5fe5db454f1f92342b14ceda1058
Issued 2022-06-10T12:41:33.138+00:00
Language en
Modified 2023-01-24T11:51:02.596+00:00
Publisher email info@unep-wcmc.org
Publisher name UNEP-WCMC
Theme Geospatial Dataset
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citation Murray N. J., Phinn S. R., DeWitt M., Ferrari R., Johnston R., Lyons M. B., Clinton N., Thau D. & Fuller R. A. (2019) The global distribution and trajectory of tidal flats. Nature. 565:222-225. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0805-8
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date_published 2019-01-01
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short_description The dataset contains global maps of tidal flat ecosystems produced via a supervised classification of 707,528 Landsat Archive images. The maps were created to identify the non-vegetated areas of Earth's coastline that undergo regular tidal inundation. In some areas, these occur as tidal flats up to 24- km wide, such as the tidal mudflats of western Europe and East Asia. Our analysis included 56 predictor layers, many of which were Landsat composite metrics designed to identify individual pixels that undergo frequent wetting and drying.