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Monday, July 24, 2023

AquaSat: A unified dataset of in situ water quality data with Landsat matchups


Hacking Limnology 2023 Day 1: Remote Sensing

AquaSat: A unified dataset of in situ water quality data with Landsat matchups

Matthew RV Ross (@MagicalSystems; Colorado State University)

"Remote sensing models of water quality can be improved by training and validation on larger data sets of coincident field and satellite observations, here called matchups. To facilitate model development and deeper integration of remote sensing into inland water science, we have built AquaSat, the largest such matchup data set ever assembled. AquaSat contains more than 600,000 matchups, covering 1984–2019, of ground-based total suspended sediment, dissolved organic carbon, chlorophyll a, and Secchi disk depth measurements paired with spectral reflectance from Landsat 5, 7, and 8 collected within ±1 day of each other. To build AquaSat, we developed open source tools in R and Python and applied them to existing public data sets covering the contiguous United States, including the Water Quality Portal, LAGOS-NE, and the Landsat archive. In addition to publishing the data set, we are also publishing our full code architecture to facilitate expanding and improving AquaSat."



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