Maldivian seagrass aerial extent raster layers 2021 - 2000

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Contemporary Seagrass Map (2021)The contemporary product was derived from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery, operated by the European Space Agency (ESA). The imagery, with a spatial resolution of 10 meters was pre-processed in Google Earth Engine (GEE) following established methods for retrieval of benthic signals. A support vector machine (SVM) classifier was used for classification. Training data encompassed three classes: seagrass, non-seagrass (including coral reefs, mangroves, sand/rubble, and macroalgal beds), and optical-deep water (ODW), totaling 25,463 training pixels. Important: the classification output is a binary (seagrass/non-seagrass) class. Validation of the map was conducted independently using 1,019 in-situ field survey points collected from 2017-2023. Mapping accuracy was assessed through an error matrix. Overall accuracy = 82%Historical Seagrass Maps (2000-2021)The historical mapping product is derived from Landsat data spanning 2000 to 2021. The Landsat missions, operated by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in collaboration with NASA, provide satellite data with a spatial resolution of 30 meters. There are no suitable data for 2010-2011. Each composite, representing a two-year period, underwent radiometric normalisation relative to a reference image from 2020-2021. Training and validation data were designated using an identical methodology as the contemporary maps, with 823 validation points utilised for accuracy assessment from 2017-2023. A fixed pixel approach was adopted to assess accuracy across the entire time series, involving the manual delineation of seagrass and non-seagrass areas. Overall accuracy was >89% in all cases.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.971265
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-61088-1
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Provenance
Creator Floyd, Matthew Jamie ORCID logo; East, Holly Kate; Traganos, Dimosthenis; Musthag, Azim; Guest, James; Hashim, Aminath S; Evans, Vivienne; Helber, Stephanie; Unsworth, Richard ORCID logo; Suggitt, Andrew J
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2024
Funding Reference Leverhulme Trust https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000275 Crossref Funder ID RPG-2021-417 ; Northumbria University https://doi.org/10.13039/100010052 Crossref Funder ID RDF20/EE/GES/EAST
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 24 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (73.221 LON, 3.203 LAT)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z