Global land mask for satellite ocean color remote sensing
Description
This data set describes a global land/water mask for satellite ocean color studies in a medium resolution (~230m/pixel; or 480 pixels per degree of longitude or latitude). Please acknowledge any use of this data set by citing the following reference: K. Mikelsons, M. Wang, X. Wang, and L. Jiang, Global land mask for satellite ocean color remote sensing, Remote Sens. Environ., 257, 112356 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112356 This data set was derived from five data sources described in the following references: [1] Carroll, M. L., Townshend, J. R., DiMiceli, C. M., Noojipady, P., and Sohlberg, R. A. (2009), A new global raster water mask at 250 m resolution, Int. J. Digit. Earth, 2, 291–308. [2] Carroll, M. L., DiMiceli, C. M., Townshend, J. R., Sohlberg, R. A., Elders, A. I., Devadiga, S., Sayer, A. M., and Levy, R. C. (2017), Development of an operational land water mask for MODIS Collection 6, and influence on downstream data products, Int. J. Digit. Earth, 10, 207–218. [3] Pekel, J. F., Cottam, A., Gorelick, N., and Belward, A. S. (2016), High-resolution mapping of global surface water and its long-term changes, Nature, 540, 418–422. [4] Hansen, M. C., Potapov, P. V., Moore, R., Hancher, M., Turubanova, S. A., Tyukavina, A., Thau, D., Stehman, S. V., Goetz, S. J., Loveland, T. R., Kommareddy, A., Egorov, A., Chini, L., Justice, C. O., and Townsend, J. R. G. (2013), High-resolution global maps of 21st-century forest cover change, Science, 342, 850–853. [5] www.OpenStreetMap.org
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Please see K. Mikelsons, M. Wang, X. Wang, and L. Jiang, Global land mask for satellite ocean color remote sensing, Remote Sens. Environ., 257, 112356 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112356