Dataset
Estimated monthly water levels across a subset region of the Congo Basin peatlands (2019 to 2020)
Abstract
These data include estimates of the monthly water levels across a subset region of the Congo Basin peatland complex for the period March 2019 to October 2020.
Filenames beginning with 'WL_monthly' contain the monthly minimum, maximum, mean, and standard deviation of the estimated daily water levels for a subset of the Cuvette Centrale region in the Central Congo Basin.
Filenames beginning with just 'WL_' contain the minimum, maximum, mean, and standard deviation of the estimated daily water levels over the 20-month study period, March 2019 to October 2020.
Details of the method used to produce these data are included in the article: Georgiou, S.; Mitchard, E.T.A.; Crezee, B.; Dargie, G.C.; Young, D.M.; Jovani-Sancho, A.J.; Kitambo, B.; Papa, F.; Bocko, Y.E.; Bola, P.; et al. Mapping Water Levels across a Region of the Cuvette Centrale Peatland Complex. Remote Sens. 2023, 15, 3099. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15123099.
These data were produced for the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) project CongoPeat: Past, Present and Future of the Peatlands of the Central Congo Basin (grant reference: NE/R016860/1).
Details
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Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence(s): http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. |
| Data lineage: |
Details of the method used to produce these data are included in the article: Georgiou, S.; Mitchard, E.T.A.; Crezee, B.; Dargie, G.C.; Young, D.M.; Jovani-Sancho, A.J.; Kitambo, B.; Papa, F.; Bocko, Y.E.; Bola, P.; et al. Mapping Water Levels across a Region of the Cuvette Centrale Peatland Complex. Remote Sens. 2023, 15, 3099. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15123099. Code available at: https://github.com/SelenaGeo/InundationMapping/. |
| Data Quality: |
These are estimates and are subject to uncertainty in the SAR data used and the altimetry data that the temporal inundation patterns were validated against.
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| File Format: |
Contact support@ceda.ac.uk for file format information.
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Process overview
Independent Instruments
| PALSAR-2 |
| Output Description | None |
- var_id: band
- var_id: lat
- var_id: lon
- var_id: time
- units: days
- var_id: water_level
Co-ordinate Variables
Temporal Range
2019-03-01T00:00:00
2020-10-31T00:00:00
Geographic Extent
2.7000° |
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16.0000° |
20.0000° |
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-1.2000° |