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Potentially Resolvable National Hydrography Dataset Waterbodies and Flowlines from Landsat Images in the United States (excluding Alaska)

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2021

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Hafen, K.C., and Ducar, S.D., 2021, Potentially Resolvable National Hydrography Dataset Waterbodies and Flowlines from Landsat Images in the United States (excluding Alaska): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9W3EUF5.

Summary

This data release presents two datasets including waterbodies (reservoirs, lakes, ponds, wetlands, etc.) and flowlines (stream reaches) from the high-resolution National Hydrography Dataset Plus (NHDPlus HR) that are potentially observable from Landsat images for the United States (excluding Alaska). To determine where National Hydrography Dataset Plus high resolution (NHDPlus HR; USGS 2019) features intersect locations with observed water, a workflow was developed using the Global Surface Water Extent dataset (GSWE; Pekel et al. 2016) to specify where water was observed by Landsat from 1984 to 2019. The workflow determines where the extent of NHDPlus HR water features (waterbodies and areas) overlaps the maximum extent of Landsat-observed [...]

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Point of Contact :
Konrad C Hafen
Originator :
Konrad C Hafen, Scott (Contractor) D Ducar
Metadata Contact :
Konrad C Hafen
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Idaho Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources

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Landsat_Resolvable_NHDPlus-HR_Waterbodies_and_Flowlines_US _excluding_AK.jpg thumbnail 1.26 MB image/jpeg
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NHDWaterbody_resolvable.csv 184.34 MB text/csv

Purpose

This data release presents two datasets including waterbodies (reservoirs, lakes, ponds, wetlands, etc.) and flowlines (stream reaches) from the high-resolution National Hydrography Dataset Plus (NHDPlus HR) that are potentially resolvable from Landsat images for the United States (excluding Alaska). Data were obtained and processed to identify waterbodies and stream reaches where water characteristics could potentially be monitored with Landsat satellite sensors.
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